Word: toning
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...present, Harvard's policy statement is too weak to serve as an effective deterrent. The language and tone of a policy statement are critical in conveying to potential harassers that such behavior will be taken seriously, and to potential victims that the University will respond sensitively to reports of sexual harassment. Harvard's statement achieves neither of these goals effectively...
...Gilda is appropriately sleek, but one cannot believe that a character who doesn't know what to do with her own arms and legs can skillfully manipulate other people. Richard Council as the painter Otto is a bit too heavy and straightforward, he says witty things, but his tone and presence lack the speed and guile that would let him survive this "measured skirmishing" Kenneth Meseroll as the playwright Leo comes closest to convincing, but even he lacks that confidence in his own fascination which is the pre-requisite to charisma...
Though both Epps and Jewett stressed their concern for quality rather than tone, it seems that each may have had more in mind. The band, though certainly in need of some self-motivated clean up, often poked good, clean fun at Harvard in a manner that any generation could laugh at. Its uncharacteristically lifeless rendition of "Fight Fiercely Harvard," "Soldiers Field," and "Ten Thousand Men of Harvard" two Saturdays ago raises the question of whether Epps will allow any jest at the expense of Harvard...
...edged or fuzzily tremulous, but it always conveys the impression of architectural form-a window or a door, a passage from inside to outside. A painting like Summer Open with Mediterranean Blue, 1974, creates a strikingly concise yet opulent impression of landscape by these pared means. The passages of tone in the paint, the variations of blue depth, drench the eye in sea light without offering a glimpse of horizon; it is as though a part of nature had been taken down to its barest essence-discarding the thing but leaving the nuances-and then contrasted with an equally reduced...
...friends were often famous, like Dorothy Thompson and Clare Boothe Luce. As she recalls life with the smart set, Hobson falls into a modish, woman's magazine tone in which even problems sound like boons. In 1942 her idea of dire indebtedness was owing rent to the Vincent Astor offices for her East Side apartment and a clothing tab to Bergdorf s. For all her social concern, political events are sometimes invoked as if they were backdrops for her personal dramas, as in a rendezvous with Ingersoll: "When he arrived, my rehearsed words went out the window...