Word: toning
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Humphrey's tone is calculated to evoke memories of Harry Truman's bruising 1948 campaign against Thomas E. Dewey. Whatever ground Humphrey may have gained with it last week, however, was not quite enough to endanger his underdog status. The Vice President remained an astonishingly inconsistent campaigner. At times on the stump he could be inspiring and almost pithy-a quality at odds with his loquacious nature. Then, in the next paragraph, he could sound again like a political calliope, cliches ablast. "Government of the people, for the people and by the people," he told one audience...
...ignore abuse is not only a good law officer, not only a moral victor, but a living symbol of a free society strong and calm enough to withstand any challenge. But this takes the kind of police and civilian leaders who respect the Constitution-and set the right tone for cops on the front line. Mayor Richard Daley hardly helped with his "shoot to kill" order after Chicago's Negro riots last April, or by implying before the Democratic Convention that protesters were hoodlums or Communists...
...shameful and gratuitously provocative. Your resort to guilt by association (both with the Communist Party and with one's parents--all in one remark!), your attempt to stigmatize a particular set of political beliefs, and your misrepresentation of the sources of student discontent at Harvard set an ugly tone in which to further academic pursuits and hardly indicate a willingness to understand or cooperate with students in making necessary changes in this institution...
...similar copy of the housing convention's resolutions was mailed to M.I.T. Walter L. Milne, assistant to the (M.I.T.) chairman, gave an answer similar in tone to Whitlock's that some of the resolutions were inconsistent, and some were of dubious legality, but that M.I.T. was willing to work with the group on housing problems...
...Mass. Ave. between Plympton and Linden Streets, carries one of the best collections of reproductions of prints and paintings. Reproducing a lithograph or print is a relatively minor prostitution since the works were originally meant to be printed many times with paper and ink. Lacking the inscriptions and camp tone of many original posters, they often seem to be more serious work and are not quite as lively...