Word: toning
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...Pope released an apostolic letter in which he set to rest, for the foreseeable future, the question of the ordination of women. His answer, in brief, was no. The document disappointed and outraged many Catholic women and men; even some sympathetic to the Pope felt that his peremptory tone, his strict argument from precedent, i.e., that Christ appointed only males as his Apostles, represented a missed opportunity to teach, to explain an exclusionary policy that contemporary believers find outmoded or beyond understanding...
...speaking a big part of the job. This, after all, is a man whose political-action committee once drew up a list of labels -- sick, pathetic, bizarre, insecure -- for Republican candidates to use against their opponents. But even Gingrich seems to be having second thoughts these days about the tone of the Republican revolution he is leading. Lately he has been arranging for members of Congress to hear talks by Morris Shechtman, a conservative management consultant and psychotherapist, who advises them on how to advance the Republican agenda without looking heartless. For example, he tells them that since people still...
...Friday, after delivering a forceful defense of free trade at the Americas Summit in Miami, Clinton met privately with 30 lawmakers from both parties. Wisconsin Republican Toby Roth, a fierce conservative, stood up and suggested the election might have gone Clinton's way had he struck such a probusiness tone in October. "Thank you for saying those things now," said Roth, "and not before the election." Clinton laughed and replied, "I don't think anyone would have listened before the election anyway." Maybe not, but as he starts over yet again, Clinton is hoping Americans will listen...
...middle-class family, H.E.A.L.T.H. to the organic-food business and The Player to Hollywood, so is Ready to Wear to fashion: a comic panorama of people pretending to get along under stress, creating a bogus community, playing games of power and privilege, establishing who's boss. The tone of an Altman film -- the desperate milling, the sense of isolation within a crowd, the urgency to no clear end -- is the reflection of life on any movie set and, indeed, in the working lives of most people. When the scheme works, as in MASH and The Player, it does...
True to form, Kenan Professor of Government Harvey C. Mansfield Jr. '53 set the high-minded tone for the session. Seeking to justify his title as "Harvard's Last Conservative," Mansfield lashed out at his colleagues. "You're a bunch of liberals, and you passed a nutty ultimatum on the Pentagon, and you received a humiliating rebuttal," he sputtered. "You think you're so smart. You think you're so moral. You think if your intelligence fails, your morality will save...