Word: instrument
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...movies are innocently the most revolutionary instrument that has come from America since the Declaration of Independence. . . . The United States is now associated all over Europe (and above all in Britain) with a series of visual images that the European peoples find attractive. America is a background to the movies...
Like documentary films, which Hollywood ignored and Britain developed into a vivid educational instrument, documentary radio is old stuff to BBC. It was inaugurated in 1935 by ruddy, jovial Lawrence Gilliam, Cambridgeman and BBC features director. Since then BBC sound trucks have poked about England recording fox hunts, hop-picking festivals, markets, and building them into first-rate documentary radio shows. They also went abroad to record the sounds (sidewalk conversation, café colloquies, shopping talk, parades, music) of foreign cities...
...Nearest thing to combat duty for WAACs is a new task: manning instrument detectors for anti-aircraft batteries, which Brigadier General M. G. White told Congressmen "they do a lot better than men and learn more quickly...
...British woof. For every staff office held by a Briton, an American occupies an opposite number. Tedder calls Spaatz "Tooey"; Spaatz calls Tedder "Arthur." It is Arthur who occasionally in the evening plays U.S. tunes on the piano. Tooey, who is a guitar virtuoso, broods because he has no instrument with him. The French are scouring Algeria for one so Tooey can join...
Quite a few things have happened, however, since the infallible Founders brought forth the perfect Constitution. They created a document that became a marvelous instrument for a Jeffersonian agrarian democracy, but that lost its quality as a testament under the stress of an expanding society. The Industrial Revolution necessitated a flexible interpretation of our political structure, a fact that the American public began to realize after prosperity remained around the corner. Individual initiative is possible only if individual despair is forestalled. And freedom for the individual to deal as an "equal" with a billion-dollar corporation has become an assininity...