Word: toning
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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Ronald Reagan had said most of it before, but now he was making his points for the first time, face to face, to a senior Soviet leader in the White House. His comments were quite different in tone from those he had been accustomed to make early in his presidency. The U.S., Reagan said, respects the Soviet Union's status as a superpower and has no wish to change its social system. America does want to resume arms-control bargaining, and if the Soviets are prepared to return to the table they will find the U.S. stance flexible. "There...
Reagan had in fact edited out of the drafts prepared by White House aides any direct criticism of Moscow. His speech on Monday, delivered in a tone of great earnestness before the General Assembly, contained little that could be construed as even indirect chiding; for example, he advocated "a negotiated outcome" in Afghanistan without once mentioning the Soviet invasion and occupation of that country. His theme was peace through negotiation, and to support it he cited two historical figures who had rarely before appeared in his pantheon of quotable heroes: St. Ignatius of Loyola, founder of the Society of Jesus...
...emptive concessions in the heat of the campaign, nor is he going to let himself be stampeded by Defense into slamming any doors he may want to walk through later." In his U.N. speech, the President simply advocated negotiations and added a candid explanation of the difference in tone between that address and his earlier fulminations against the "evil empire." Said Reagan: "America has repaired its strength; we have invigorated our alliances and friendships. We are ready for constructive negotiations with the Soviet Union." Translation: two or three years ago, in Reagan's view, the U.S. was not militarily...
...second act's balcony scene evoked the stark contrast of light and dark that Wagner wanted. Alas, Elsa is not the most dramatically complex of Wagner's heroines, and Tomowa-Sintow was content to play her one-dimensionally. Although somewhat uncertain of intonation and raspy of tone, Nentwig admirably portrayed Telramund's moral degeneration...
...essay, existential in tone, is one of the most personal expressions ever voiced by a modern Talmudic authority on the elemental power of religious faith and the ways in which the joy of life often comes mixed with longing, torment and despair...