Word: instrument
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Lustigkeit. The concertino is in one movement, opening with a jazzy theme and then passing to a brief slow movement; from a grand splash for the piano, a vigorous rondo, interspersed with a recurrence of the previous themes, concludes the piece. Pianists may rightfully resent the use of the "instrument of the immortals" as a mere bundle of hammers...
Really, it is all very puzzling-you men must be in your daily life honest, intelligent and educated or you would not be where you are, but having in your hands an instrument of publicity reaching thousands of readers you drop your principles and resort to sneaking actions which you would scorn in your private life...
Walter Dorwin Teague has, besides Steuben, Eastman Kodak, Taylor Instrument, National Radiator, A. B. Dick among his clients. An apostle of functionalism in design, Mr. Teague abhors in manner as well as theory esoteric aspects of art. Explained he last week: "The industrial designer . . . does not pluck his designs out of the air, or out of his own soul. His designs are always latent in the things he deals with. . . . He asks himself, what is this thing for? What is it supposed to do? What is it made of? How is it made? . . . If he is a good designer...
...Jacksonian Democrat, McConaughy has few heroes besides Old Hickory. One of them is Aaron Burr, another his creature, the original Tammany Hall. "The picture of a Tammany victory as a beneficent act of God, with an Aaron Burr as the Divine instrument, is somewhat startling to us today. But it was accepted with delirious joy by a majority of our forefathers a hundred and thirty-odd years ago. . . ." Strict-interpretationist, McConaughy thinks the Constitution has never been given a trial, says it has been warped from the start by the Supreme Court into a shield for special privilege. He starts...
...some of the developments of recent dictatorships. In the first place, propaganda, throughout the world, is rapidly being conscripted to the services of the governments in power. Control of the press and the radio, from which are derived control of men and industry, has become a far more facile instrument of power than divine right. Russia is perfecting her technique for mass anesthetisation; Hitler is applying the social chloroform of organized propaganda at this very moment. Every means of intellectual expression at once falls to the purpose of perpetuating the intelligent regime. That in itself should give unlimited life...