Word: toning
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...Henry IV, Parts 1 and 2, performed on successive evenings or, on matinee days, in a single afternoon and evening. The opening productions are stolid, earnest and distinctly uninspired. The occasion totally lacks the incandescent flow that made the company's Nicholas Nickleby a unique theatrical experience. In tone Part 1 has a springtime mood, life blooming to be grasped; Part 2 is autumnal, life slipping away beyond one's grasp...
Outside the Elysée, an American reporter called out, "How was the food, Mr. President?" Reagan answered in a mockreproachful tone, "Now, how could the food be? Delicious. We're in Paris!" At the embassy dinner, the former California Governor told his French guests, "We know France has great appreciation for fine wines. That's why we decided to treat you to some California wine tonight." Mitterrand, carried away by all the camaraderie, addressed Reagan as "mon cher...
...Taping conversations on the sly is not polite. It is often morally wrong. But the fact that he taped his conversations did not destroy Nixon's presidency. It was what he said in those conversations-his talk of hush money, his coaching of the cover-up and his tone of cunning and low spite...
...York the following day, the Pope turned to his controversial and conservative social stands. Once again he defined the sacrament of marriage as "an unbreakable alliance of total mutual self-giving . . . It is unconditional." But his tone was paternal rather than condemnatory. Though the church refuses Communion to those in second marriages, John Paul spoke to the divorced with sympathy: "Christ himself, the living source of grace and mercy, is close to all those whose marriage has known trial, pain or anguish. We must reach out with love, the love of Christ, to those who know the pain of failure...
Will: "Dr. Graham, you've changed your tone about the Soviet Union amazingly in the last 30 years, and just this spring, as the peace movement has become hot politically, you have appeared at the head of it. Is there an element of opportunism in this?" A tough question, but fair: the implied accusation is Will's own. Donaldson: "There are a lot of people, Dr. Graham, who are saying that you are not testifying for God, but you are testifying only for the ego of Billy Graham. How do you respond to that?" Note the lack...