Word: toning
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...House Chief of Staff James Baker whispered the news of the Soviet pullout to the President as he sat through a luncheon commemorating the 100th birthday of Harry Truman, Reagan merely frowned and murmured, "Oh, no." He said nothing in public for 24 hours, and then took a calculated tone of sorrow rather than anger. Said the President: "It ought to be remembered by all [that] the Games more than 2,000 years ago started as a means of bringing peace between the Greek city-states. And in those days, even if a war was going on, they called...
...THIS IS NOT TO SAY that The Lecherous Professor is compassionate towards sexual harassers. Far from it--but the very strength of the book is the manner in which Dzeich and Weiner restrain their tone to one of reasoned rational analysis, letting the words of victims and the stories of cold reactions to the scandals within universities create a sense of outrage on their own. Their stories run the gamut from verbal harassment to threats of assault. One woman from a community college reported...
...mixed bag of metaphysics. MacLaine asserts that Jesus Christ developed mystical powers during years of study among holy men in India. She contends that "trance mediums" have enabled her to recall past lives. Although she privately acknowledges that she encountered a number of frauds, the book's exuberant tone suggests that almost any spiritual visionary, from William Blake to Edgar Cayce, can win her wholehearted faith...
Radical though the changes have been, the word hardly applies to Pelli's design. When the original museum structure, by Philip Goodwin and Edward Durrell Stone, opened in 1939, the architectural tone of 53rd Street-and of midtown Manhattan in general-was set by brownstones, mansions and beaux-arts commercial buildings. It was a world of rich, plum-pudding surfaces. When MOMA raised its polemic International Style façade of glass and polished marble, with those futuristic Swiss-cheese holes in the roof canopy, it looked apparitional. But now the context has shifted again. Thanks to the competitive...
Although the reporter successfully incorporates her personal opinions into the entire story. I will address primarily her lead paragraph because it sets the tone for the rest of the story. The lead states that the Undergraduate Council at its most recent meeting "became tangled in the sort of procedural arguments that some observers say have periodically 'strangled' its effectiveness this year." I consider this assertion to be inappropriate for several reasons...