Word: tunings
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Where Can We Go? Last week doomsday talk reached fever pitch. Disk jockeys were spinning a hit calypso tune called Day After Day, which asks: "Where can we go when there's no San Francisco?" A book called The Last Days of the Late, Great State of California, which gives a jolt-by-jolt preview of the disaster, was a bestseller...
...sell well and have a reasonable mark-up, Brown claims. Areas needing scrutiny, however, include such merchandise as men's clothing. "Students are just not buying suits and hats any more. Perhaps we ought to see if we can't use that space to offer clothing more in tune with current tastes," Brown says. "The COC will be working with Al Zavelle, acting general manager, to see what changes are in order...
...scene: the annual production of (topical) satire by the Inner Circle, New York City's political writers. The scene stealer: New York's Mayor John Lindsay, candidate for reelection, singing a ditty he composed to the tune of Where Have All the Flowers Gone...
...boys spit on the pavement, dig each other in the ribs; some whistle shrilly, others swear obscenely and several tune into dance bands on their transistors. They hug their girls on the processional path and pull them from each other's arms and look them over cockily. At any moment you expect them to draw knives: first against each other, then against the believers. For the way these youngsters look upon believers is not as juniors upon their elders, not as guests upon their hosts, but as lords of the manor upon houseflies. Still, it doesn't come...
...metaphor is not inappropriate: though Boris Vian wrote the novel in 1946, the world it created seems more in tune with perceptions at a stoned-soul picnic than with the view from a bistro in post-war Paris. In a brief preface Vian explains that the book's "material realization consists in projecting reality obliquely and enthusiastically onto another surface which is irregularly corrugated and so distorts everything...