Word: tuned
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...Lasso's Penitential Psalm, 'De Profundis,' Beethoven's 'Elegischer Gesang,' Op. 118, and Schubert's Mass in G Major. The worst-performed, Schubert's Mass, written at 18, suffered from an execrable accompaniment by a small string ensemble. In their solo passages, the strings sounded uniformly out of tune, weak, uncertain, and uncoordinated Beneath the chorus, they could only muddle the texture a little, but almost did derange the pitch and rhythm of the three excellent soloists. Sure and accurate, Tenor David Griffith, Soprano Emily Romney and Bass Chi-Yuen Wang successfully staved off the strings, but were drowned...
Invariably, the "show" lives up to the doorman's guarantee. A girl enters to the tune of an unlikely song such as Sweet Georgia Brown, clanked out by an instrumental trio. Slowly she sheds a shoddy evening gown while the audience yells, "Take it off, Baby, take it off!" When she has stripped down to pure buff, she bumps and grinds for a few minutes, then glides around the circle of ringside tables, stopping whenever a clean-cut, brush-topped young man reaches out to touch-test her salient features...
This artificially high U.S. price, coupled with severe limitations on imports of raw cotton, saddles the U.S. textile industry with $250 million a year in extra costs. At the same time, because foreigners refuse to pay the U.S. price, Washington subsidizes cotton exports to the tune of 8^ per Ib.-which makes it possible for foreign textile makers to buy U.S. cotton at the low world price, then ship it back to the U.S. as cheap finished goods...
...scene is set at a party. An aggressive hostess is urging Rosie, a reject from a Pete Seeger concert, to strum her ole guitar. Rosie offers a little tune she picked up from an oppressed refugee once...
Poetry is not, unfortunately, what most poets are writing in English today. In the last 20 years, the English-speaking world has produced no major poet and scarcely a score of those minor bards who assiduously tune the lyre of language till another great man is ready to take it up. But if quality is lacking, quantity is not. In the 16 years since World War II, more poems have been composed in the U.S.-last year more than 200,000 were submitted for publication-than were written in ten centuries between Beowulf and the Bomb; and in Britain, poetic...