Word: toning
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...right. The U.S. is in grave crisis, yet the President-elect has revealed little of his design; he has remained immured in his Manhattan headquarters, working long hours but making few public statements. Washington waits this week with quiet anticipation for the installation of Richard Nixon, uncertain about the tone and thrust of his presidency, but looking happily forward to the fun and fanfare of the celebration...
While many of the Nader group's charges were justified, the report's effectiveness was often diminished by overstatement and an intemperate tone. Suggesting an anti-business bias, the report called the dishonesty of companies "far more damaging to contemporary America than all the depredations of street crime." Though anything but objective, the report drew support last week from an unexpected source. The trade journal Advertising Age joined the Nader team in knocking the commission's foot dragging: "No community is well served," it editorialized, "if its fire department habitually reaches the scene after the last spark...
...white Anglo-Saxon Protestant. True enough, the new President's Cabinet, with three Roman Catholics, is statistically no more Waspish than most in recent decades, even though it stirred comment for including no Negro or Jew. But people sense about Nixon's appointments, and his style, a tone of reassuring Wasp respectability and good manners. The forces that elected Nixon-those who most avidlv supported him-are Wasp to the core; the "ethnic blocs" voted for Humphrey. With Nixon's accession, noted Norman Mailer, it is "possible, even likely, even necessary that the Wasp enter the center...
...Athens, raids, raids and more raids on villages, continued vilification and threats-all these and other incidents apparently make the world more interesting. The U.S. State Department ignores these offenses, or at most sounds a mild "tut-tut." The U.N. does the same. However, an Israeli reprisal, designed to tone down the level of warlike activity on the part of the Arabs, generates storms of protest. The greatest protest is raised not because lives are lost but because Israel destroyed some expensive airplanes in Beirut. Where is the sense of values when world figures and nations collectively and individually object...
...Madrid)-Intense and precise, it has set the tone of all Spanish journalistic writing. Its emphasis on literature, music and philosophy gives it an aura of intellectualism. It has suffered from stringent press laws, but has offset its inability to have pungent political articles by improving its nonpolitical pieces and pictures. It exercises considerable courage and skill in making its voice heard, sometimes with sly critical undertones...