Word: toning
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...American society today, the emphasis is less on caring for others than on getting money and instant gratification. Notes Arnold Goldstein, director of the Center for Research on Aggression at Syracuse University: "We are a nation whose role models, Presidents and leaders on Wall Street have set a tone in the country -- 'I'm going to get mine.' " If the big-shot investment banker can take what he wants, often by illegal means, then a teenager may think he should be able to grab the spoils in the only way he knows how. Declares Harvard psychiatrist Robert Coles: "Our culture...
Throughout his manual, O'Rourke maintains a tone of caustic irony. It fails to disguise a moralist concerned with a lapse of decorum and values. In a discussion of capital punishment, the condemned is told, "Try to think of something piquant to say on your way to the gas chamber. 'See you in hell, Mom,' is nice. Things like . . . 'Don't stop to mourn, organize' sound too stiff for what's basically an informal situation." It is at such times that the mask of the mockingbird slips off to reveal the owl beneath, hooting at a world he is furiously...
Besides, Gingrich has been spoiling for fights since he arrived in Congress in 1979, outspokenly intent on changing the tone of the Republicans' minority- party congeniality. He repeatedly clashed with Wright's predecessor, Tip O'Neill, and has survived two attempts by the Democratic congressional campaign committee to target him for defeat in his suburban Atlanta district. While he awaits what is sure to be a protracted ethics inquiry, Gingrich will go on fighting. "If we get rid of Wright but keep 99% of the other Democrats, we've accomplished nothing," he says. "I'm ready for more action...
Pauley, an anchor on NBC's "Today Show" and mother of three, spoke before approximately 5000 people, listening under a sea of umbrellas in Tercentenary Theater Striking a tone alternating between folksiness and cynicism, Pauley played off her celebrity status to highlight the importance of children and family...
...narrates, in a straight-forwardbut dramatic tone, "I was a victim of the New YorkCity public schools." Growing up in theBedford-Stuyvestant section of Brooklyn, Watsonwas the son of "very hard-working blue-collarworkers." His mother worked in a Kosher bakery,his father was a truck driver...