Word: tuned
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...still keen on Pergamon," said Steinberg last week. "The editors and publishers are highly competent, and the long-run future looks good if we can get through this difficult time." Still, says Steinberg, the next time he tries to acquire a British company, he will be sure to tune in on the talk at a Fleet Street...
Beating the Jews. The new lyrics, which range widely over Soviet life and politics, provide the Russians with an opportunity to tune out the monotonous propaganda and "socialist realist" songs that still blare from Soviet radios. A recent theme is the increase in traditional Russian antiSemitism, now being whipped up by a press campaign against Israel and by Soviet propaganda for the Arab cause. For example, the official radio broadcasts the song of a Soviet soldier who begs, "Oh, mother write me a letter to Egypt; we're going to be here for a while." But far different sentiments...
...believe in what you know?" The pitchman offers a trip away from all this, and the song becomes a rhythmic invitation to salvation aboard a train en route to glory. The Shape I'm In bids to be the album's most popular cut. A jaunty tune, it covers in four fast minutes the loss of a girl, getting busted, a "rumble in the alley," and concludes, "Save your neck or save your brother/Looks like its one or the other." Stage Fright, the title song, is a scary story about a poor "ploughboy" who becomes a musician...
Like Miss Brer Foxhole in The W.S. Walcott Medicine Show, they are "a true dead ringer for something like you ain't never seen." And like a lady named Bessie in an earlier, simpler tune, The Band just can't be beat...
...feels "charitable" toward draft resisters and recently blasted Oregonians for refusing to lower the voting age to 19. He called the refusal a "tremendous victory for the S.D.S." Until recently, Ohio's Republican Senator William B. Saxbe viewed most antiwar dissenters as "crazies." In June, he changed his tune after receiving a jolting letter from his "most conservative" son Charles, 23, a Marine lieutenant. Charles movingly asked his father to fulfill his campaign pledges and help end "a war that is contrary to everything I've been taught to believe about America." The letter and Saxbe's impressed reply were...