Word: toning
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...release echoes most of his compositions at their very best. British Pianist John Ogdon is ideally suited to his assignment. His calm, intelligent performance gives coherence to Nielsen's sometimes aggressive brilliance, and in quiet, crystalline passages, such as the finale of Chacone, he achieves a purity of tone reminiscent of the late Walter Gieseking...
...pleas for law and order than in cries for change. They would be happier with a candidate who symbolizes stability and the known than one who stands for radical change and the unknown. But it is a minority, and particularly a progressive, vocal minority, that often sets the tone of the times. The articulate Americans who are seeking new paths and new personalities have done just that. More significant, they have defied all the laws of political gravity by keeping aloft the candidacies of Nelson Rockefeller and Eugene McCarthy...
...Military Armistice Commission, composed of U.N. observers and U.S. and North Korean officials, has met 273 times at Panmunjom, right in the middle of the Demilitarized Zone set up by the truce. The meetings have always been bitter and hostile, but lately they have taken on an even harsher tone as the result of North Korea's seizure of the Pueblo and its increased attempts at infiltration into the South...
...voice on the March of Time radio, movie and TV documentaries from 1931 to 1953 when the Time Inc. shows ended; of cancer; in New Milford, Conn. A colleague once said that Van Voorhis' delivery sounded "like the voice of God." His authoritative style set the tone for a generation of radio newsmen, and his "Time marches on" put a new phrase into the language...
Mean Mischief These new books offer some value as footnotes to the argument. Julius Lester is a former field secretary of the Student Nonviolent Coordinating Committee. His Look Out, Whitey! is a long harangue that reproduces accurately the black tone of voice at its angriest. It is street-corner oratory aimed at blacks but spoken, as the mean mischief of the title suggests, with sly awareness of the whites standing at the edge of the crowd...