Word: toning
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...point here, obviously, isn't to argue that divestiture activists should tone down their rhetoric because they're hurting President Bok's feelings. After all, he is a grown-up, and used to being dumped on by everyone from A. Bartlett Giamatti and John "Harvard Hates America" LeBoutillier '76 to the most diehard would-be Marxist revolutionary...
...exclamation points and use inflammatory phrases. I am an aspiring journalist, so this style of writing seems distasteful. Talking with one as he tried to sell me Young Spatacus, for example, I had to point out that the phrase "white-hooded Ku Klux Klan scum" was too strong a tone to take; it was also redundant...
...such criticisms inevitably fall on deaf ears. They are not trying to take an objective tone, the Sparts will tell you. They are about the formulation of revolutionary politics. One paragraph from "Young Spartacus" summarizes their political philosophy...
Trevor tends to connect his chosen selection of writings with rather dry, cursory remarks. But in more extended passages, such as the fascinating and powerfully-felt paragraph comparing the literary aspects of England and Ireland in the nineteenth century, Trevor's voice takes on the tone of a refreshingly enthusiastic, rather than a dutiful, guide. For example, talking about the playwright Sean O'Casey, Trevor says that...
...theater folk overwhelmingly dispute his claim that Shakespeare is losing popularity. On American campuses, at any rate, interest has never been higher. As for the merits of Rowse's specific alterations, John Andrews, director of academic programs for the Folger Shakespeare Library in Washington, says: "He is tone deaf, it seems to me. He has no sense of the music of verse." Al though Rowse usually retains the rhythm of Shakespeare's lines, some of his substitutions change it altogether. "We'll have no Cupid hoodwink'd with a scarf," says Benvolio in Romeo and Juliet...