Word: toning
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...some extent, the tone has been set by the black radicals. Speaking for the Black Panthers, Stokely Carmichael announced: "We believe in violence. I am using all the money I can raise to buy arms. It is now necessary to attack police stations and kill policemen." Despite such outbursts, there are some signs that other black leaders are developing a greater sense of reality about what can be accomplished through violence of word or deed; certainly the ghetto riots have been cooled. But a sense of reality is distinctly missing in many of the student protesters, for whom hate-filled...
...rockets that blew up, assuming they ever got built. Another gaffe is to boast of having organized a local chapter of the International Flat Earth Society. Stanford rejected one such pre-Columbian after having second thoughts about his intellect. On the other hand, the Stanford authorities suggested the right tone to take when they beamed at a budding scholar who claimed that he had collected and counted 50,000 ants...
Despite the ingenuousness of the plots, Yun's serial music, with its Oriental overtones, is so inscrutable that the orchestra and offstage chorus required no fewer than 30 rehearsals. Yun's use of twelve-tone rows is as free as his theatrical fantasy. The singers often had to master unaccompanied vocal lines, and the orchestra itself was augmented by whips, rattles and bells. At the end, as color projections were flashed onto a transparent curtain, boulder-size clusters of tone shot from the orchestra, and twelve percussion instruments went wild with pings, thumps, roars and growling glissandi. Then...
...half were present; we have 50, of whom less than half were present. Much of your article outlines certain "demands," which--you ambiguously state--they "entered the meeting prepared to make." I am glad to say that they were much too friendly and fair-mined to adopt such a tone; some, but by no means all, of the matters you report were brought up in the course of a full and free discussion. The person who supplied you with this material, Miss Ellen Cantarow, spoke for herself alone, and left the meeting early. I did not appoint three committees...
Stendahl called the meeting after a group of black students at the school issued a statement requesting an open forum on the report. The statement objected to "the overall assumptions and tone" of the report and charged that it was unrepresentative of black student opinion...