Word: tuned
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...front of a pale green building on Honolulu's Kapiolani Boulevard one day last week, a band of ukuleles and a bass fiddle plunked out a rhythmic island tune. In the midday sun, languid, aloha-shirted islanders meandered back and forth along the sidewalk carrying their signs, pausing now and then for a swig of pineapple juice or to chat with a passerby. The occasion was neither a luau nor a festival, but the visible evidence of the first strike in more than 100 years of Hawaiian newspaper publishing history...
...sure. He sometimes stays up all night to get a single line for a lyric. He has spent two weeks on one couplet. It can take him months to write the words to an entire song. Then he hands it to Rodgers-who demoralizingly creates a finished tune in 20 minutes...
...organized foes of numerification, the post office is carrying on a large-scale public relations program, including the biggest mass mailing in history. They have even gone so far as to devise a little ZIP Code anthem, arranged for the music of "Zip-a-Dee-Do-Dah," a sacred tune which once signified the beauty of life...
...format of Freberg's spiritual ads is "a disarming natural conversational approach leading into a song that's like a pop tune. It's what I call the 'espionage approach.' " In one commercial, a secular type says he can't make it to church because "this Sunday I'm playing golf," and as far as next Sunday goes, "I promised to take the kids to the beach." A voice asks: "Well, how about two weeks from Sunday?" "Oh, I never plan that far ahead. Two weeks! The whole world could blow...
...dean: Henry Allen Moe, 69, boss of the John Simon Guggenheim Memorial Foundation for the past 37 years. A Rhodes scholar and an Oxford-trained lawyer, Minnesotan Moe gave "Guggie" fellowships the status of a U.S. intellectual knighthood, personally knighted some 5,000 artists, scholars and writers to the tune of about $1,500,000 a year. Moe's genius was to spot promising people in their 30s, give them time and money to make good their talents. No man has done more to nurture creative Americans (Physicist Arthur Holly Compton, Painter Jack Levine, Composer Aaron Copland, Novelist James...