Word: creation
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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What Carnegie did was go electronic. Last week at a gala recital presented by Concert Organist Virgil Fox, the hall showed off its newest feature-a behemoth that can growl, sing, tinkle, purr and blast in a way unmatched by any other organ. A one-of-a-kind creation built by the Rodgers Organ Co. of Hillsboro, Ore., the new instrument is the most up-to-date and expensive electronic organ in the world. Carrying a price tag of $200,000, it took 23 months to design, construct and install. The finished product fairly bulges with audio-oscillators, sine-wave...
Gentle father. Her father is a warm gentle businessman who spends all of his time reading. Her mother says, "Boris, are you going to read in this kitchen? We will have Lermontov in the sauerkraut ... Mamma glowered. Sauerkraut was no joking matter. This was the creation of the world going on here. There was no time to lose; she might forget a continent; she might leave out a sea. Such seriousness!" In the basement, barrels, vats and bins were filled with enough food for three winters, and then the poor of the neighborhood were invited to come in and take...
Brazell said the chorus suffered from insufficient financial backing and a lack of enthusiasm from its members. She said there had been widespread support throughout the University for the creation of an all-women chorus...
Thumping Blooper. Sir Keith's venture into monetary policy was a mild embarrassment compared with the thumping blooper committed by Shadow Foreign Secretary Geoffrey Rippon. Apparently seeking to calm jittery middle-class voters, Rippon suggested the creation of a "citizens' voluntary reserve" that would "aid the civil power" against anyone defying the law. That plan sounded all too close to the controversial idea of antistrike forces recently proposed by retired military officers. Labor Home Secretary Roy Jenkins accused the Tories of "climbing onto the pathetic bandwagon of some superannuated colonels." Rippon's "reserve" proved such a touchy...
...grim-looking stockade is the brainchild of a group of Jamaican psychologists, psychiatrists and sociologists. It is supposed to convey the message that crime does not pay-and apparently it has succeeded. According to police statistics, there were only eight murders by gunfire during the first three months after creation of the gun court, compared with 29 in the previous three months...