Word: tun
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...visiting committee did not doubt the legitimacy of Afro-Am as a field of study," Ney said. "We believed, though that the structure of the program within the University was causing it to tun into difficulty," he added...
...Almaviva's failure to return Figaro's help in the second half of the play. That argument, however, would have little evidence to support it except the final chorus, which includes lines like, "But hear the thunder from the left, denouncing property as theft," and is sung to the tun of the British Labour Party's song ("The People's Flag is Deepest Red"). While there are other lines in the play that hint at a political interpretation--money breeds money, especially through corruption, we are told--these are generally passed over by the cast. And not surprisingly, either...
Another Chinese classic scheduled for reissue is Midnight, a 1933 novel about an evil and greedy capitalist, by Shen Yen-ping; fittingly, perhaps, he adopted the pen name Mao Tun, meaning contradiction. After the Communist takeover in 1949, Mao Tun abandoned literature for politics and eventually became Minister of Culture. In 1965 he was fired-apparently at the behest of Mme. Mao-and his early fiction was banned. Last month the 81-year-old author reappeared in print after more than a decade of silence...
...proxy vote, when Bywater finally realized he had lost, he called off the fight and resigned from the board with two other directors, leaving the government in control with a seven-man majority on the board. Within hours, Bywater was replaced as chairman by Tun Tan Siew Sin, Malaysia's former Finance Minister. Said Bywater: "I guess we just ran out of steam...
...Died. Tun Abdul Razak, 53, Prime Minister of Malaysia since 1970 who deftly laid down a nonalignment policy for his country and closely tended homegrown economic problems; of leukemia; in London...