Word: tuning
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...spirit of the original. Fresh from the drawing board came The Twelve Days of Christmas, an imaginatively designed illustration of the old song; Alouette, a gentle fable about a bird that blossoms only uncaged, and Freezeyum, the story of an ice-cream salesman with a weakness for changing the tune played by the bells on his truck...
Cindy, Oh Cindy (Eddie Fisher; RCA Victor). A tune that belongs around a campfire or between the rounds of a square dance gets the neon-lighted Hollywood treatment-French horns, a near-angelic chorus and young Songman Fisher bellowing the nice lyrics at the top of his nice young voice...
Friendly Persuasion (Anthony Perkins; Epic). A movie tune with lyrics in Quaker lingo ("Thee is mine . . . thee pleasures me") that make the canny Quakers look pretty silly. It has a mighty purty tune, by that old Quaker from Russia, Dimitri Tiomkin...
...little cocotte, the cocotte and a poet, the poet and an actress, the actress and a count, and the count and the original prostitute. This merry-go-round of sex is attended by an aloof interlocutor who explains that he represents the audience, and it revolves to the tune of a haunting waltz by Oscar Strauss...
...ally was plainly not moribund. Many thoughtful Britons, in debating the crisis internally, had reasoned their way through the confusion to a new understanding of Britain's basic instincts for law and order. And in doing so they were once again in tune with that once-honored Freeman of the City of London, Dwight D. Eisenhower, who before heading south to Augusta last week, gave evidence that he was very much still in tune with them. "I am determined that with this out of the way," said Ike, meaning Suez, "our friendships are going to be stronger than ever...