Word: tuned
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...King Arthur flour, sturdy crockery--as an electronic overture filters in with disconcerting urgency. Most of whatever's out there, wherever you came from, is left behind, and the rest gets distilled into a rarified fraction of reality, before it can enter The Kitchen. One-dimensional ribbons of a tune impossible to reproduce with human voices emanate from the portholes of insulated swing doors and from silver smoke flues--or is the sound just the whine from staggered rows of fluorescent lamps...
Harvard, it seems, traditionally fostered a reassuring self-image as a worker-oriented, paternalistic employer; when a dwindling endowment and fiscal stress reared their ugly heads, however, the University quickly changed its tune. Now it speaks of "administrative convenience...
...will be the subject of most of the major addresses. The plan is officially described as "a new, important stage in creating the material and technical basis of Communism, in improving social relations and molding a new man, in enhancing the socialist way of life." At the same tune, the Soviet press has noticeably intensified its coverage of strikes, bankruptcies, unemployment, inflation and crime in the capitalist West, while maintaining that Communism has triumphantly resolved all of these burdensome problems...
...continuing triumphant leadership of the Communist world. In fact, ideological and tactical differences have sent at least a dozen Asian and European parties out of the Soviet orbit, and the Kremlin to day probably has less influence over the destiny of the international Communist movement than at any tune in history...
...their class ties faded, their expressions somber. They have every reason to be solemn for they take upon themselves the responsibility of informing their classmates (with a ponderousness proportionate to the gravity of their message) that something is amiss at the college they all love so well. Though the tune may change, their sad song always conveys the same message: Alma Mater, that grand old dame at whose dugs they were once suckled on the sweet nectar of collegiate knowledge and sociability, is no longer, alas, what she once was. When the sad alumni walk past those ivy-bedecked, Roman...