Word: tuning
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...only the result of a desperate gamble to catch the imagination (of the Russians) and the headlines (of the West). To yell at our own scientists and planners because they are taking their time to produce a product for space research is merely harmonizing with Nikita's tune and falling for the decoy...
...when serving as an efficient but little-known Under Secretary of Labor. Ike read the book while recovering from his ileitis operation, was impressed by Larson's carefully reasoned thesis that "New Republicanism" was the wave of the political future, that New Deal Democrats were as out of tune with the times as William McKinley. After his recovery, Ike called Larson in for long, searching talks, made him a presidential speechwriter, later personally boosted him to the high-candlepower ($21,000) job of director of the U.S. Information Agency...
...much imagination and effort to break out of a mold which has been a success as often as this one. The pattern of musical comedies is nearly always the same. After a fast opening chorus, the romantic male lead meets and wins the romantic female lead, all to the tune of a ballad. Then comes the comic subplot, generally introduced by means of a specialty number. After that, the plot takes over for a while, and by the time the first-act curtain falls, the lovers are parted. The second act, which also opens with a chorus number, is shorter...
...year, to work on a 13th symphony, write a two-movement piece with a "Japanese feel" titled Ongaku (music), and compose, on commission, a national anthem for the new state of Malay (it was rejected, along with entries by Benjamin Britten and others, in favor of a Malayan folk tune named Bright Moonlight...
...tune with this hopeful emphasis was Topeka's famed Dr. Karl Menninger, who pleaded for more practical help for patients, less theory of a kind that often inspires fear: "The word schizophrenia becomes a damning designation. To have it once applied to a young man can be to ruin a career, despite all evidence of subsequent healthiness." Psychiatrists, argued Dr. Menninger, ought to regard all mental illness as the same in quality and differing only in quantity: "We all have mental illness of different degrees at different times, and sometimes some of us are much worse or much better...