Word: toning
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...essential tone of the entire CCA organization, platform, candidates, and campaign stems from Harvard. The University's influence, in the broadest sense of the word, is the influence behind the CCA. In no way does this mean the University supports the CCA financially; rather both Harvard and the members of the CCA have similar goals. This seems reasonable since the most significant faction within the CCA has some sort of Harvard connection...
Anderson intends to keep the tone of the visit as informal as possible. At a conference tomorrow morning with University officials, the Russians will be able to ask any questions they may have about University operations...
...tendency of governmental aid, and recommending that that all federal aid should be held suspect, the report exceeded its mandate to report on the NDEA an delivered a thinly veiled attack on the concept of federal aid to education. The Council was right to order the new committee to "tone it down...
...McCarthy Florence bears almost no resemblance to that of the Brownings, of "Old maids of both sexes, retired librarians, governesses, ladies with reduced incomes," who, in the Victorian era, gave it the tone of a genteel rest home. This is the city whose people "invented the Renaissance, which is the same as saying that they invented the modern world-not, of course, an unmixed good." Its great artists-Michelangelo, Leonardo, Cellini-wrought wonders in a time of bloody political and family feuds such as history has seldom seen. Murders were committed at the very altar; homosexuality was a passion shared...
Council member Barney Frank '61 last night indicated that he will try to "tone down" some of the wording of the report, and to eliminate some of the "more extreme" recommendations...