Word: tuned
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...community will integrate its schools. The lowest common denominator is often local prejudice. Even many liberals, on the other hand, have been shaken in their traditional faith in federal intervention as an effective agent in dealing with a range of social problems, and Nixon's approach evidently is in tune with the majority's present temper...
...once, the song is bound to be a hit. Musical redundancy means everything; originality and intensity are mere icing. So few popular songs have say important verbal content that it is typical to hear people chanting along with supermarket Muzak, singing words at random to an approximation of the tune. The nonsensical result is likely to be as engaging as the original...
...Saturday that saw a full Ivy league football schedule awesome first hall offense was the tune as Dartmouth danced into first place, and upstart Pennsylvania scored its second straight upset, to knock Yale...
...young volunteers from Wellesley, Harvard, Radcliffe, and Newton High School gathered in small circles and finished their Budweisers, while the members of the rock band who had been hired for the night glanced at the clock, realized it was only 10 p.m., and quickly struck up a new tune. Nobody was too excited...
...might have taken a tip from Weill, whom songs generally make their points by threatening to become happy, lyrical jazz just before they turn irretrievably sour. The opera's overture--a sort of bitter chorale in which the saxophones seems to be playing Bach just a little out of tune--sets the mood, and then things really get underway with the Moritat, better known as "Mack the Knife." If you have only heard Mantovani versions, you can have no idea what bite this song has. Stephen Schmidt, the conductor, puts it across beautifully, although the band has an occasional ragged...