Word: tuned
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Ballads before the invention of printing, and since then in the folk song tradition, owe their power to an accompanying tune, the British poet said. He explained that music carried the story, while rapidity of action created a cinematic effect by "brilliant pacing of graphic detail...
Lewis said written ballads and other lyric poems have often successfully transformed this "story lyric" without using a tune, "although it helps if you have a folk tune in your head." He quoted poems from Yeats, Graves and Auden as examples...
...walked back along Mass Ave. whistling the tune to Stevenson, Stevenson, If You Vote for Stevenson...
Tuesday, November 3 ELECTION COVERAGE (ABC, CBS, NBC, 7 p.m. to conclusion). All three networks tune in where the campaign tunes out to compute, analyze and dissect the returns. Anchormen for ABC are Edward P. Morgan and Howard K. Smith, and for NBC, Chet Huntley and David Brinkley. CBS, having officially abandoned the title Anchorman, heads its team with "National Editor Assigned to Integrate and Summarize the Overall Election Story" Walter Cronkite...
...emphasized, however, that a musical setting will restrict poetry; for instance, certain types of meter cannot be set to song. The poet must either know enough about music "to use the tune as a technical and emotional guide" or allow a composer to alter his work, Lewis said...