Word: tuned
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...coupled with wage gains running an inflationary 6.3% so far this year, threaten not only the precarious stability of sterling but also the precarious two-vote majority by which his socialists rule. Wilson demanded that the Trades Union Congress, meeting in Brighton this week, agree to voluntary controls in tune with his impending income-regulating legislation. His alternative: use of compulsory government controls in the bill, due in the next session of Parliament...
...some quarters. Attempts to impose a blanket ban on Eve of Destruction have failed, but on grounds of taste many radio stations have decided on their own not to play it. Says Los Angeles' Disk Jockey Bob Eubanks: "How do you think the enemy will feel with a tune like that No. 1 in America?" Some rock jockeys play it safe by allotting equal air time to The Dawn of Correction, an "answer song" intoned by the Spokesmen...
...sound." Adds another: "Once the ice cream man has been around, I can't get my children to eat anything. Two fudgesicles and dinner is out the window." Some people do not mind when the ice cream man cometh so much as how. The four-bar Good Humor tune that daily wafts over Beverly Hills struck such a sour note with Violinist Jascha Heifetz that he had his lawyer write up a complaint. Then, too, the trail of the ice cream man is apt to be a messy one. Observes a Chicago mother of four: "When those trucks pull...
...melodies and excellent idiomatic use of the organ. But the chorales were overshadowed immediately by the next number, Charles Ives' Variations on "America" (1891). If Mr. Biggs ever decides to make a recording with audience reaction, this should be his first selection. Not only does Ives impishly turn the tune into a music box ditty, an overembellished chorale, and, of all things, a Russian folk dance, but Biggs plays each variation with all the irreverence and humor that is intended. The composer himself said that playing the pedals in the last variation gave him "almost as much fun as playing...
...Tune-Swept reported home three-quarters of a length before the mare Good Jane, owned by the Estate of W. J. Beattie, who closed with a rush on the outside. --The Morning Telegraph, August...