Word: toning
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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Halberstam's omissions are less distracting than his unwillingness to go deeper into the era, especially since his authoritative tone suggests rather than delivers new and significant insights. The Fifties is more than an entertainment, but to borrow an image from novelist Peter DeVries, it puts you in a diving bell and takes you down three feet...
...early yet on the campaign calendar, and Republicans have hundreds of ads ahead of them. But the foundations of a Congressional drive will set the tone for the program to come. Highlighting errant Democrats is a one-sided strategy that will take the GOP only so far. If the party doesn't outline a Republican program--even a minimal, skeleton program--it's unlikely to be convincing. And if Republicans can't wage convincing campaigns, then 1994 promises, indeed, to be more of the same...
...also said he wants to tone down the food...
...Were you urged to tone down your remarks during confirmation to be more politically acceptable to the middle...
...first and most obvious problem has to do with money. Unlike the newly fashionable lean and mean corporations, symphonic ensembles cannot readily strip down. It takes the same number of musicians -- about 100 -- to play a Strauss tone poem today as it did a century ago, and a major Beethoven symphony still requires almost an hour to perform. Orchestras raise funds through ticket sales (about 35% of their income), government funding and private donations, but income is hard pressed to keep up with expenditures even when an orchestra is performing to near capacity houses...