Word: instrument
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Music, with Echoes. Matisse's revolutionary synthesis through the years has become increasingly lucid, brilliant and gay. Now his subject matter means little; the colors are the thing. And each color, linked in loose, insistent rhythms of linear composition, sounds in the eye like a separate instrument: trumpet, cello, cymbals, oboe, harp and clarinet. Freely transforming nature, the paintings resound with symbolic echoes...
...first time in history, announced the commission, the church has in radio "a God-given instrument whereby the Gospel of Christ may be brought...
Cornwall, Dr. Deacon has an instrument that continuously measures the weight of water above it. As the waves sweep in from the North Atlantic, it records them all-big & little-on a strip of paper. Dr. Deacon studies the strip at his leisure. The ordinary visible waves do not interest him much. What he is looking for are long slow "swells," their crests 30 seconds apart, that cannot be detected except with the wave recorder...
...first hearing aid, an instrument that plugged into a light socket, was all right for desk workers, but no good for anyone moving about. His second, a two-unit set ($40), made him, he claims, the world's biggest producer of hearing aids. But he lost money on them...
...shocked by experience into the realization that people have unexpected reservoirs of sordidness and evil. But even more exposed, and perhaps more deeply hurt, are the adult innocents, who have sat out their lives in habitual disappointment or in cocoons of selfdelusion. In one of the best stories, the instrument of evil is a young schoolboy who hates his naive schoolmaster and takes a vicious delight in helping to wreck his life. Adult readers who take it for granted that a child's mind is an uncomplicated, open book may find themselves appalled by Miss Barker's chilling...