Word: toning
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...overwhelming majority of these correspondents, the topics were weighty, the tone serious and the tempers high...
Readers were indignant over TIME'S June 13 cover story "Los Angeles: America's Uneasy New Melting Pot." Most of the 1,170 letters attacked what was perceived as the article's "racial stereotyping" and "negative tone." The total was boosted by a letter-writing campaign by Korean Americans unhappy over the story's suggestion that their national group is looked down upon by other Asian Americans. Said a typical letter: "The article fosters prejudice toward immigrants and divisiveness and distrust among the various ethnic minorities...
This has been the tone of every turnover since. In 1969, when the owners kindly excused General Eckert ("the unknown soldier"), they hired their own lawyer...
...outraged about Grenada. "George said, with that slightly nervous tone of the 12-year-old who tends to get beaten up daily at the playground because of his enlightened views. He insists that moral imperatives require that girls be allowed to play kick-ball ("G'wan, eat dirt punk" was the most recent retort to George's plea, I think...
...gestures, rather than unnecessary production, as the cast deftly conveys the simple themes of good versus evil and heaven versus hell of the libretto, complemented by Mozart's score. The simple costumes, which can't be pinned down to any one era, and the sparsely furnished set suggests tone rather than time, giving the singers the opportunity to display their superb voices and at the same time revealing the agelessness of Mozart's music...