Word: toning
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...company's 23 productions included Clifford Odets' Golden Boy and Waiting for Lefty, William Saroyan's My Heart's in the Highlands and Sidney Kingsley's Pulitzer-prizewinning hospital drama Men in White. Its members included Actors John Garfield, Frances Farmer, Morris Carnovsky, Franchot Tone and Lee J. Cobb, Directors-to-Be Elia Kazan and Sidney Lumet, Theorists and Teachers Lee Strasberg, Stella Adler and Sanford Meisner...
...Reagan has more than domestic politics on his mind. His milder message was supposed to set the tone for the meeting between Secretary of State George Shultz and Soviet Foreign Minister Andrei Gromyko this week in Stockholm. Both men will be traveling to the Swedish capital to attend the opening ceremonies of the Conference on Confidence and Security-Building Measures and Disarmament in Europe. It will be the first time Shultz and Gromyko have met since they exchanged angry words in Madrid last September over the Soviet downing of Korean Air Lines Flight 007. Their discussions, along with Reagan...
...President was not expected to offer any new initiatives to break the deadlock that has existed since the Soviets walked out of arms-control talks in Geneva last year to protest the deployment of new NATO missiles in Europe. The shift will be one of tone, reflecting Reagan's confidence that the U.S. can now negotiate from a position of strength, thanks to its military buildup and economic recovery. Reagan planned to tell the nation that now there was less danger that "the Soviet leadership will underestimate our strength or question our resolve" and that...
...press is likely to become tougher on Mondale. The reservations about him are in part professional prudence: front runners often fade, as Ed Muskie and Ted Kennedy did; a candidate setting too bland a course can be upset, as Thomas Dewey was. Some of the press's tone, however, makes Mondale seem like a wimp, which...
...Washington. At a Western-style news conference for U.S. and Canadian reporters last week in Peking's Great Hall of the People, Zhao, 64, dapper in a trim-cut suit and polka-dotted tie, fielded questions for more than an hour. He seized the occasion to set the tone of his forthcoming visit, sketching out areas of cooperation between the U.S. and China and skillfully down-playing difficulties of the past. When reporters alluded to one of the more recent "difficulties"-President Reagan's reference to Taiwan as the "Republic of China" during his visit to Japan...