Word: tuned
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Since Philadelphia gave Kennedy a 331,500-vote plurality in 1960, enough to swing the whole state for him, U.S. Representative William Green, boss of the city's well-oiled Democratic machine, professes not to be worried about next time. Another Democrat whistled a graver tune: "Pennsylvania is no sure thing for Kennedy. We've got troubles...
...audience pitches onto the orchestra from slanting levels like irregular alpine slopes. One-third of the 2,200 seats are in front of the Philharmonic's conductor, Herbert von Karajan. "Admittedly, it is a new form," says the architect, "but one which I believe is more in tune with our times...
Then, two weeks ago, President Kennedy addressed the General Assembly of the United Nations (TIME, Sept. 27), and unexpectedly challenged the Russians to cooperate in a joint assault on the moon. Why, after two years of rush-rush activity, the change in tune? Was the U.S. manned-moon project proving so unexpectedly difficult that Kennedy wanted help from the Russians in meeting its soaring costs? Or was Kennedy's offer part of a general cold war thaw...
...Tune Instrument. Another and more drastic kind of reform was an nounced by the Pope a week before the council opened. In a speech that blended praise and criticism, irony and soothing words, the Pope announced to the Roman Curia that the time had come to reform and internationalize the vast
Vatican bureaucracy.* Paul defined the Curia as "the instrument" he used to fulfill his "divine mandate," but added that the instrument was now out of tune and subject to much criticism. The Curia, said the Pope, "has become old, less suited to the times. Now it feels the need to simplify itself and decentralize itself." Pope Paul did not specify what reforms he had in mind, but by implication the Curia personnel will be internationalized, and many decisions now made in Rome will be left to individual bishops or national hierarchies...