Word: instrument
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...bars. He protested the German bombing of Guernica (in the Spanish Civil War) with a massive mural whose ugliness is its strength. "What do you think an artist is?" asked Picasso. "An imbecile who has only his eyes? . . . No, painting is not done to decorate apartments. It is an instrument of war for attack and defense against the enemy...
...these anechoic chambers, in the ear splitting noise room, and in half a dozen instrument paneled laboratories, myths and hearsays of the world of sound were refuted or sustained by rigorous investigations. The ancient fable, that a certain frequency with a certain intensity would send a man into raving insanity, was sent back ot the writers of science fiction wood pulps. Incessant testing of human guinea pigs proved that loud and constant noise does no hamper efficiency or make for neurotic individuals. A steady stream of practical inventions for wartime communications and medical purposes poured forth form this laboratory...
Coleman Hawkins, who brought the saxophone through almost all of its agonizing stages of development as a hot instrument from its first bicycle horn-like groping right down to the present era of squealing reeds and cyclone phrasing, heads the list. He will do battle with Illinois Jacquet, one of the younger fry, whose playing measured by the decibel and the foot pound is unexcelled...
...strongly back the United Nations as an instrument toward a World Government which will promote the economic welfare and the political security of all the peoples of the world equelly. Such an international policy which will maintain and further the great social gains of the last fourteen years. We believe that the veteran can only become a well-integrated member of his community if he is given a fair opportunity to readjust himself. His interests must be considered from a balanced view of the welfare of the community...
...General Assembly of the United Nations, a clearing-house for the opinions of member countries can be persuasive or forceful in the adjustment of international problems. The instrument is as effective in its potentialities as its destructive counterpart--the fissionable atom. But for all the prayers offered up to a good of peace, and for all the prophesies of professional well-wishes, the United Nations, as Secretary General Trygve Lie said,". . . is no stronger than the elective will of the nations that support it. Of itself it can do nothing...