Word: tunefully
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Thus, Barzun warns, those who continue to grumble at America are merely singing a worn-out tune. "They forget that the true creator's role, even in its bitterest attack, is to make us understand or endure life better. Our intellectuals do neither when they entice us to more self-contempt...
Changing Ways. Times have changed in India since the days when the Nizam was absolute autocrat of Hyderabad, could dress in encrusted brocade and im port whole jazz bands from England to play his favorite tunes, Whispering and I'm Forever Blowing Bubbles. As a civil servant now, subservient to the New Delhi government, he has to struggle along on a tax-free stipend of only $1,000,000 and an expense account of half as much, as autocratic democratic head of the state of Hyderabad (pop. 19 million). In tune with the tight times and his penny-pinching...
...University of California at Los Angeles had winked at so many regulations that the Bruins were 1) put on three years' probation, 2) forbidden to participate in conference or N.C.A.A. championships, and 3) deprived of their Rose Bowl receipts to the tune of some $80,000. All last year's football players, freshman and varsity alike, lose a year of eligibility unless they can prove that they have not been paid under the table. And because Chancellor Raymond B. Allen did not cooperate with the conference investigation. U.C.L.A. was fined an additional $15,000. Because of the relatively...
...Washington last week a Senate appropriations subcommittee heard a 1956 version of the re-enlistment blues. As sung by Assistant Defense Secretary Carter L. Burgess, it was a different tune. It did not concern the "dog soljer"; it was about highly trained specialists whose skills range from running an infantry squad to directing propulsion operations on an atomic submarine. Re-enlistment rates, said Burgess, are dangerously low, particularly among the men who are the most expensive to train, whose capacities are greatest and whose talents would be "the most critical in modern war." Some of the statistics...
...good, though, and it fails to give the effect of very careful construction. Yet there is humor and originality in certain passages, such as the hoarse Chorale, and the final unorthodox Fugue with its playful theme. The work suffered from the performance, for the strings were not in good tune...