Word: tunefully
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...quite purposefully" killing her swinish husband with a heart attack -resulting presumably from sexual exertion. The author builds her characterization by having her use foul language as often as possible. But as Mark Twain once remarked of his wife's swearing, "she has the words but not the tune...
...teen-agers have been gravely affronted by Claire Barnett's prideful claim of "tuning them (television commercials) out for so many years." Why does she think we do our homework in front of the television set? Ensconced in our sanctuary before the tube, we enjoy eight minutes of continuous work, easily giving attention to both TV and texts. The only interruptions we suffer are during the commercials, when we automatically drop the books and "tune in." It's the simplest thing in the world to study while the forces of good and evil meet in climactic clash deciding...
More Cautious. Despite these drawbacks, the Czechoslovaks have quickly grown accustomed to their freedom. Perhaps because of their democratic tradition, they regard it as something owed them, a birthright. People now tune in their radio and TV sets and expect to hear real news and not propaganda. They expect their leaders to be responsive to their questions and petitions, and to give them action. The Hungarian rebellion of 1956 was loaded with drama and tragic heroism. What has happened in Czechoslovakia has been more cautious, deliberate and evolutionary; it is an attempt at the marriage of Communism and democracy that...
...three-network "commercial day." Everywhere they went-to the office, to parties, and through all their household chores-they carried their stopwatches with them. One or the other of them was never far from the sight and sound of a TV set. "The hardest part was learning to 'tune in' the commercials after tuning them out for so many years," says Claire. "Now it's all I can do to miss the message even when I want...
...Elman, 54, self-taught trumpeter who kept the nation jumping during the swing era; in Los Angeles. Born Harry Finkelman, he changed his name after he signed with Benny Goodman in 1936, joined the Tommy Dorsey band in 1940, and after the war formed his own group. His signature tune, And the Angels Sing, which he adapted from a Jewish wedding dance, was the best-known piece in a musical bag filled with inventiveness...