Word: tunes
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Heartz' harpsichord playing had some rhythmic tentativeness and wrong notes, but was adequate on the whole. As soloist he played Byrd's showy Praeludium and jaunty variations on the folk tune The Carman's Whistle. But most intriguing was Hugh Aston's Hornepype, taken from the earliest source of English harpsichord music; this too was a set of variations--not on a tune, but rather on a repeated bass pattern. It is striking for its period in its unusual length, and in the fact that it has an ever-increasing intensity whereas most Renaissance pieces preserve their initial level throughout...
...change of tune can change a deal...
...century, the rallying cry of Britain's Labor Party has been the Marxist ideal of "social ownership of the means of production." Last week in Towards Equality, a slim, 31-page pamphlet prepared under the personal supervision of Party Leader Hugh Gaitskell, Labor sharply and radically changed its tune...
During Juan Perón's heyday. Argentina's July 9 Independence Day parade in Buenos Aires was little more than a muscle-flexing display of military power marching to the monotonous tune of The Peronista Boys. Last year there was no parade at all; instead, a crowd of angry Roman Catholics marched through the streets shouting anti-Perón slogans and chanting hymns to show their disapproval of the government's feud with the church. Against so dark a background, last week's celebration stood out like a beam of sunlight...
...Changing Tune. The biggest reason for the stock market's optimism was the brightening tone of the whole economy. The mood was evident not so much in statistics-though they were bolstering-as in the thoughts and words of businessmen themselves. Previously, forecasters had predicted a second-half readjustment; now the talk was of continuing good business with perhaps even a slow, steady rise to the end of the year. As the Manhattan First National City Bank noted: "Business reports through June have been sufficiently favorable to moderate the pessimism which appeared after the disappointing automobile news...