Word: toning
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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That stern warning was delivered in sweetly reasonable tones. To avoid ruffling Botha, the U.S. delegation did not include U.N. Ambassador Andrew Young, who is thoroughly detested by South Africa's white leaders. Vance delivered a personal message from Jimmy Carter implying that the U.S. would tone down its harsh criticisms of South Africa's apartheid policy if Botha accepted the U.N. plan. Further underscoring the West's flexibility, the Big Five spokesmen agreed to a number of South African demands: a renegotiation of the size of the U.N. peace-keeping force that is to move into...
...craftsmanship and the tone are suggestive of Andrew Wyeth, but the new painting of Lady Bird Johnson is in fact by New Yorker Aaron Shikler, best known for the official White House portraits of President John F. Kennedy and his widow Jacqueline Onassis. Commissioned by Jane Engelhard, widow of Industrialist Charles Engelhard, the Lady Bird canvas was painted in Texas last spring when the bluebonnets were in bloom, and will be on permanent display at the Lyndon B. Johnson Library in Austin. Said Lady Bird last week: "I'm crazy about it. I feel very much in tune with...
...deal with students in this way in private while in public making pious statements about their commitment to reasoned discussion and rational discourse. And in this we include not only Ira Jackson and Archie Epps, but also Derek Bok, the man who has the responsibility for setting the moral tone for the Harvard administration...
...Boston Symphony Orchestra, under guest conductor Andrew Davis, performs two American works and a Strauss tone-poem tonight, tomorrow, Saturday and Tuesday at Symphony Hall. Davis, Music Director of the Toronto Symphony, will conduct the scherzo "Over the Pavements" by Charles Ives, "Before the Butterfly" by Morton Subotnick and "Ein Heldenleben" by Richard Strauss. The concerts are at 8 pm except for tomorrow's, which...
...degree the growth and development visible in Annie Hall and Interiors, is that of an awkward, clumsy, neurotic, unconfident, hapless little man who manages to maintain a sense of irony and self-awareness throughout his mishaps and setbacks. Even when he gets the woman the self-mocking tone is always present. So why would a documentary-maker not immediately try to find out how much of this image Allen believes to be true of himself? Any film of Woody Allen's life which ignores his psychology and his subconscious mind is doomed to be of quite limited value toward understanding...