Word: toning
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...What's goin' on, Bobby?" Fisk asked in his driest, most professional tone of voice...
...like Sunday in the Park is a musical idyl to the garment workers' one day off, where lovers hold hands, mothers stroll with their tots and old people bask on sunny benches. The park has to be Central Park, since Pins and Needles is very New Yorky in tone and allusion. Now people still do those things in Central Park, but its current "social significance" is that it is a place one enters at the risk of being mugged or mangled by young thugs armed with baseball bats...
...very first entry has an astonishingly religious tone for an unbeliever: "For rich people, the sky is just an extra, a gift of nature. The poor, on the other hand, can see it as it really is: an infinite grace...
...writing to express my displeasure at the article "Waiting for Godot (I mean, Bakke): Minority Admissions at Harvard's Grad Schools" which appeared in the June 8 issue of The Crimson. Not only was the tone of the article such that it presented an already emotionally charged issue in an inflammatory manner, but I am particularly disturbed that my words and opinions as spokesperson for the Third World Caucus were misquoted and misrepresented in order to do so. I particularly take issue with the following paragraph which appeared in that article...
...dispatch. Mrs. Kennedy had come in at that moment; she overheard the editor trying to edit me, who had already so heavily edited her. She shook her head. She wanted Camelot to top the story. Camelot, heroes, fairy tales, legends were what history was all about. Maness caught the tone in my reply as I insisted this had to be done as Camelot. He let the story...