Word: toning
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Articles in the Soviet military press, now firmly under the control of Marshal Malinovsky, immediately took on a more ominous tone. Red Star, the army newspaper, told the sad tale of one Velikolug who was so puffed up by a successful military career that he committed "serious blunders for which he received strict party punishment." Soviet Fleet, in a similar attack on "swaggering military leaders,'' declared that "decisive condemnation should be made of efforts to minimize the role of political organs in the life of the armed forces." Pointedly, the navy publication added: "No matter what a Communist...
...culture worship. It occurred to no one to point out that chamber music was returning to the living room, where it started, and to stage the presentation with informality befitting four musicians playing for their own enjoyment. Instead, in its grave, concert-hall atmosphere and the overearnest tone of introductions by Composer Norman Dello Joio, the TV men presented the music as if it were spinach-very good for you, but rather forbidding...
...farce moments can be entertaining and brightly cockeyed. The old maid daughter (well played by Martine Bartlett) is both amusing and touching. The son's outbursts can have a mad-dog howl and bite. But so abruptly do things shift focus, so wildly do they change tone, that farce firecrackers negate real bullets, and virtues are turned into faults. Where, by a stylized atmosphere and a sardonic inflection, Waltz of the Toreadors could mate humor with horror, lace wormwood with Vichy. Square Root jangles with false notes. Where, again, Williams could make a dynamic-if uncentered-story...
Although not mired in its former glory, the 100th Anniversary Issue of The Atlantic definitely has an antique aspect. Though the ancients appearing in its pages retain most of their power, they are undeniably growing old. A litle fresh blood for its own sake would have added a tone to the issue which would not have marred the solemnity of the occasion...
...sadistic tone is set. In another story Mrs. Perrington, a heavy woman with an asthmatic nose, falls dead of a heart attack. "You can tell she's dead because her nose has stopped bleeding...