Word: tunings
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...Yaobang, whose tolerance of demonstrations two years ago precipitated his downfall. The marchers, divided into well-organized ranks according to their school, chanted and waved red and white banners. When they tired of singing the Internationale and the national anthem, the students launched into homemade ditties. To the tune of the French song Frere Jacques, they warbled in Chinese, "Lying to the people, lying to the people, very strange, very strange...
Twenty years ago, a morning on the golf course was a political statement. To the tune-in, drop-out generation, golf meant Bob Hope and his U.S.O. tours, neatly pressed clothes, graying hair trimmed high around the ears and cut well above the collar. Country-club golf was a symbol of everything the young held in contempt, a bastion, perhaps the last, of the back-slapping big business deal. Golf was something for Dad, but not for the new generation...
...Cornell match was nothing more than a tune-up. Harvard won all nine matches in straight sets. The Crimson played with businesslike efficiency, piling up victory after victory...
...definitely a good tune-up in the sense that we got a win under our belt," Krass said...
This is the semester's last Schoolyar Talk Tune in next semester for more sports wit and wisdom...