Word: tunefully
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Third Man Theme through earphones. In Boston, a dentist drilled away at a patient who was listening to Brahms's popular lullaby In New York City, a plastic surgeon about to operate clapped earphones on the patient, then used his scalpel while the patient listened to the tune, Lovely to Look At In Baltimore's Johns Hopkins Hospital, an expectant mother was prepared for delivery of her baby while the strains of Victor Herbert's Toyland came through speakers concealed in the labor-room walls...
...Debt. Good-natured Little Apostle Don Zeno likes to amble through his Village of Brotherhood in turtleneck sweater and beret, pepping things up with a tune on his accordion. This week his bushy eyebrows were knitted with concern over plans for expansion. More foster mothers have been signing up each year (current total: 100), but Nomadelphia still has a waiting list of 7,000 abandoned children. To take care of the overflow, Don Zeno has bought 3,000 acres for a new "village" on the Tyrrhenian coast...
...neglecting the esthetic side of education, Dr. Skinner taught some pigeons to peck out a tune on a simplified piano (i.e., the basic theme of Take Me Out to the Ball Game). Exploring his pigeons' personalities, he came to the conclusion that many were prone to superstition. They tended to repeat any action that had, in the past, produced food. Some became addicted to complicated rituals, hoping that twirlings and bowings, repeated in a fixed sequence, would yield a reward of food. Even when these actions had no effect, the pigeons clung to them hopefully...
...Italian Republic. Romans missed the dash and color traditional with Italian soldiery. The cheers which had greeted the few mounted carabinieri and their red-plumed helmets died into shocked silence when the beloved Bersaglieri (sharpshooters) rode by in halftracks instead of trotting jauntily on foot to the tune of blaring bugles. An old woman watching the parade nodded her head toward Mussolini's old balcony on the Piazza Venezia. "He did things much better," she said...
...have not found it. Perhaps we can find it together." His favorite admonition was "Naturally-play naturally." When he was pleased he cried, "Eggzactly-eggzactly." Once when a musician struck a wrong note and others looked pained, Casals remarked cheerfully: "In Bach's time everybody played out of tune. The spirit is more important than wrong notes...