Word: tuned
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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Earlier in the week, the racquetmen dropped three of five tune-up contests on a swing through the South...
English renditions of these two triumphant works have never before been available in one book. And Translator A. Poulin Jr., 38, has done more than simply collect Rilke. He gives the German a tight, idiomatic English style that is both readable and remarkably in tune with Rilke...
...Hicks, the anti-busing Boston city councillor, led a float with signs declaring: "Hicks says South Boston is MY Roots," and "Southie is worth fighting for." Her group, ironically identifying itself as South Boston's Marshall's Youth Activities, was followed by a sound truck blurting the locally popular tune "Southie, My Home Town." Boston Mayor Kevin White did not march, but Gov. Michael Dukakis did, and Sen. Edward M. Kennedy '54 never showed despite his announced intention to participate. He is probably lucky he stayed away--bars, shop windows and lapels bore little good will for the man whose...
...drawbacks, for the most part the material chosen was timely and effectively dramatized. The energy of the presentations seemed to infect the largely sympathetic audience. The evening's finale, which was accompanied by enthusiastic, rhythmic handclapping by the audience, was a song called "Solidarity Forever Rock," sung to the tune of the rock 'n roll song "Locomotion." It seemed to be a light-hearted self-parody of the radical leftist style. Yet troupe members assured me afterwards that they were in total earnest...
There is a traditional prescription for its recapture, which consists in swinging the club to a waltz tune.... So away I went to a secret valley, a very muddy one in the season of rain, where no human eye could see my contortion nor human ear hearken to my carolings, and 'Gad, there I was,' as Jos Sedley once observed, 'singing away like--a robin...