Word: toned
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...fact that the council's report also soared off into some sweeping theories about social security and deficit spending did not altogether spoil its conciliatory tone, or diminish its surprise factors. Most of Keyserling's words were sound and sane doctrine that many a businessman had long subscribed to. The wonder was its source...
...Inside headquarters, beneath a gigantic portrait of Communist Boss Mao Tse-tung, more than a score of Hong Kong labor leaders smoked, drank endless cups of green tea and offered their sympathy to the locked-out trolley employees. A headline in the pro-Communist Ta Rung Pao set the tone. It read: "Friendly Love Will Support the Tramway Workers." Outside, restless crowds chanted a Communist song to the tune of "John Brown's Body...
Entering the gallery was like going outdoors on a balmy June day. Karfiol's nudes, flowers and landscapes all had the same warmth and freshness of tone, the same softness of outline and the same idyllic mood. The dreamy passivity of Karnol's paintings made a startling contrast to the hard energy of John Marin's (see below...
...joker in Shaw breaks out sufficiently in Caesar and Cleopatra, e.g., his burlesqued esthete (well played by John Buckmaster) and frightfully proper Early Briton (well played by Arthur Treacher). But the tone of the play is prevailingly wry and ironic. The air seems very chill at times for all the Mediterranean sunlight. A bald and aging conqueror withholds his heart from a violent young girl rather than have her torture it; then, with a rueful smile, promises to send her a dashing young Marc Antony. "Murder shall breed murder . . ." he laments, "until the gods are tired of blood and create...