Word: tuned
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...Irishman raised in India, Lawrence Durrell is a kind of blarney artist in swami's turban. In The Alexandria Quartet, the illusions were so masterly as to seem substance enough. In Tune, Durrell's 1968 novel, and now in its sequel, Nunquam, Durrell's virtuosity has slipped sufficiently to leave him exposed as a bit of a trickster. His hand is no longer quicker than the reader's eye, and many critics have clobbered...
...decided that the Intersectional were a good tune-up for the New England Championships May 9 and 10," sailing coach Mike Horn said yesterday. "We sent our strongest team to Tufts and it paid...
...preparation for the Masters, Casper refreshed himself with a five-week layoff and just one tune-up tournament to put a high gloss on his game. It paid off as he out-putted Bert Yancey and Gary Player in the final round and went into a play-off with his old boyhood friend Gene Littler. Relying again on his trusty mallet-head, Casper one-putted seven of the first eleven greens, holing snaking shots from 15 and 30 feet. He went on to win by five strokes. Throughout the 90 holes of play, Casper needed only 145 putts while Littler...
...American News wishes to capture, to tune in and to enlarge the American living beat. Born with these aims in the heart, today is making them public from its pages. In the widespread mosaic of different sections a fanning on the various aspects and issues affecting the American living or arriving to Argentina will blow promptly." To which all fanning journalists can only to add salute and heartfelt hoping of many successful futures...
Dickey approaches teaching with a combination of energy and detachment. His creative-writing students are advised to tune into their recalcitrant unconsciousness, or the "celestial wireless" as Dickey calls it. He recently hammered away at his modern-poetry students for most of an hour about Emily Dickinson's obsession with death. When not one of them could see that the house with "the cornice but a mound" in "Because I Could Not Stop for Death" was a grave, he remained undepressed. The class left bright-eyed and exalted by his performance...