Word: tuned
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...needs." Jimmy Carter: "A calm voice in a sea of shouters." Mo Udall: "The Democrat for President." Birch Bayh: "It takes a good politician to make a good President." Which pitch will set this year's perhaps unprecedented numbers of undecided voters to humming the candidate's tune? First in New Hampshire next Tuesday, then a week later in Massachusetts and a week after that in Florida, the answers will...
Reality Grasped. Millet's sympathies were republican. His whole conception of peasant realism was in tune with, and fortified by, the political experiences of 1848: to grasp plebeian reality was to engage in a revolutionary act. But he was no militant. As Herbert is careful to show, Millet's imagination was fatalistic and conservative: the peasants, in his view, could never escape their cycle of toil but were bound like weary oxen to the mill of earth and seasons. That was the root experience of his own peasant childhood...
Chocolate cake, a bottle of Califor nia champagne and a lot of razzing greeted Republican Presidential Candi date Ronald Reagan when he reached 65 last week. Reporters on the campaign trail offered application forms for Social Security and Medicare, and composed a ditty to the tune of California, Here I Come. Sample lyrics: "Senior citizens, I'm with you/ Guarantee my boodle too/ Voluntary, actuary, that's all bum/ Social Security here I come." Reagan, who is in fact a voluble critic of the current Social Security system and says he does not intend to claim the benefits...
...film by Steve Segall called "Red Ball Express" gets all caught up in trains. It marvelously anticipates what the spectator's mind expects to follow each mobile image. Railroad tracks cross and intertwine, creating squares and patterns and coils; wheels roll and tumble; all to the tune of Kentucky bluegrass fiddling. Another short, by Canadian Paul Driessen, features little and not-so-little green monsters, fishes, and manipulative humans--the creatures swallow each other in an endless progression of gulps and burps. Perhaps Driessen suffers from an underlying paranoia--there's always something bigger out there waiting, waiting...
...Olympic flame opening the twelfth Winter Games. That flame will burn for twelve days of competition in the dangerous, exciting, magically graceful world of winter sports. More than half a billion people around the world will follow the action on TV, including millions in the U.S. who can tune in 39½ hours of coverage on ABC, most of it in prime time...