Word: syne
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...signature of Beethoven's Fifth Symphony would be written *RRD. Mary Had a Little Lamb works out like this: *DDUUR RDRRU URD. Graduates who this June march up the aisle to Elgar's Pomp and Circumstance-*DUUDD DDUUD UUUUU-may well sing *URRUD DUUDR UUU, Auld Lang Syne, when next they meet. Letter codes for musical compositions are arranged in alphabetical order, with classical melodies carried through the first 16 notes and popular songs through 14 tones...
...politician and diplomat under four Presidents were members of their families: Franklin D. Roosevelt Jr., Margaret Truman Daniel, Lynda Bird Johnson Robb and a special friend, Jacqueline Kennedy Onassis, to whom he lent his Georgetown house after President Kennedy was killed. As the band played Auld Lang Syne, Jackie capped her first political appearance in Washington in eleven years with a rare speech. "It's wonderful to be back here tonight with so many of my old friends to honor someone unique in the history of our country," she said, "Who else has served us so long...
...days of auld lang syne...
...foot-long corridor made of wallboard and lit by a flourescent green light through which you could creep sideways; a black and white photograph of two messes of junk plunked on a studio floor; a large TV screen on which a pair of lips were painstakingly mouthing "lip syne" again and again; another TV screen with a man smearing lather all over his naked hairy chest; a color photograph of a pair of hands waxing the red plastic letters "HOT;" a rusted steel plate called "Dark"--the artist claimed to have written "dark" on its underside; a bunch of dirt...
...blue and silver White House jet left the dusty airport of Khartoum, a Sudanese brass band played Auld Lang Syne, slowly and starkly so that it sounded almost like Taps. When the jet landed at chilly, wet Andrews Air Force Base near Washington, D.C., an Air Force band played The Star-Spangled Banner while cannons fired a 19-gun salute. Thus, with poignant ceremony, were the bodies of Ambassador Cleo A. Noel Jr. and Deputy Chief of Mission George Curtis Moore returned home last week...