Word: tuned
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...playing second fiddle in Britain's Conservative Party these days, but former Prime Minister Edward Heath still calls the tune occasionally. Heath, who was ousted as head of the Conservatives in February, made his continental debut as a symphony conductor last week before sellout audiences in Bonn and Cologne. At the invitation of Maestro André Previn, Heath led the London Symphony Orchestra through a 15-minute performance of Elgar's Cockaigne overture while West German TV cameras recorded the event. "Scintillating," applauded Bonn's General-Anzeiger. "Heath probably took Richard...
...distinction they saw was not one of historical philosophy or bias or method of analysis, but merely that Thernstrom employed certain facts from history that, being numbers, required some basic mathematical treatment before being placed in a larger frame of analysis. The real differences among historians--those we should tune our minds to discover--do not concern whether data is mathematical or not but rather the ways in which the data is used to form broader historical generalizations...
...getting out; with their families, the number of these would-be refugees could easily reach 200,000. "How do you start contacting and organizing these people?" asked a worried U.S. embassy official. "Many don't have a phone or even an address. How do you reach them in tune? How do you tell them to come without that in itself creating a panic? How do you decide who goes and how many members of the family accompany them? How do you keep the others away?" Yet unless these Vietnamese escape, they may well find their names on some Communist...
...same tune, Gibney points out, modern Japan was largely created in the American image during the postwar occupation. Japan's deep-rooted psychological dependence on the U.S., in fact, is an extension into the realm of international relations of a chain of dependence and corresponding obligation between the younger, poorer and weaker and the old, rich and more powerful that runs from top to bottom in Japanese life. As Gibney compares and contrasts the two countries, he reflects on how our own industrial superpower-individualistic, given to philosophical absolutes and brusque manners-might profit from the example...
...pity that Mr. Richardson felt compelled to present an argument emergent in a political rhetoric not in tune with the Mideast realities. It is such misrepresentations and distoritions of the U.S. role in the Mideast which demand critical examination and unequivocal rejection. Steve Schwarzberg '76 Coordinator, Harvard U. Jewish Student Appeal