Word: toning
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...risk of seeing another Libya develop, a warehouse of subversion and terrorism only two hours by air from the Texas border." More concretely, U.S. concern was demonstrated by the presence of the battleship Iowa off the coast of Honduras. Shultz, on the other hand, adopted a less confrontational tone. On the way to Uruguay, he declared that he was "perfectly willing" to meet with Ortega during the inauguration visit...
Whatever the results of the Sandinista peace campaign, the Administration's tough tone seemed to focus congressional opinion, but not necessarily in ways that the White House liked. Before Ortega's statement, House Speaker Tip O'Neill, a Democrat, weighed in with a stern reply to Reagan's "uncle" remark. Said O'Neill: "The U.S. has played 'uncle' in Latin America for far too long. It is time to play brother." Speaking to a group of Canadian business executives during a Time Inc. news tour in Washington, Delaware's Democratic Senator Joseph Biden charged that "we have simply been lied...
...Britain, Amanda Sebestyen writes, the feminist movement "has spent too many years apologizing for itself and seeking a niche in the male-dominated socialist movement." Sebestyen's piece is one of the few that rings with a pessimistic tone. "Much of the last 10 years or so of our movement has conducted itself with truly British reticence. The mass marches of women in Italy, the United States and Ireland never happened here...
Dennis Crowley '85, stage director, who asked Gorey to design the set, feels that Gorey's artwork is appropriate to the opera's tone. "His light-colored set picks up on the summery sounds in the score and emphasizes the setting in high mid-summer England," says Crowley...
...passions. Formally, it is a tart ! comedy of contrasts between what we say and what we tell ourselves we believe. The tragedy is as hoary as a D.W. Griffith silent romance; the comedy is as up to date as The Real Thing. Appropriately, Keith Hack's production finds its tone in waggish irony, as established by Charlie, the eternal old maid. Bitching genteelly about his rivals, flouncing through life with wet rancor, Charlie is the play's most modern character. And Petherbridge's deftly broad performance connects so directly with a 1985 audience that the other men's declarations...