Word: instrument
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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President Pusey cited the Shah of Iran as "A twentieth century ruler who has found in power a constructive instrument to advance social and economic revolution in an ancient land...
...National Instrument. The airline literally came out of the underground. Between scheduled flights to European capitals in the early years, its secondhand, U.S.-built C46 Commandos and Skymasters used to be outfitted with Cuban colors and repainted "Near East Airlines" overnight in order to evacuate 140,000 stranded Jews from Arab lands. More recently, during last summer's short but savage war, 60% of El Al crews were mobilized, while the rest moved military cargoes from Europe to Israel. "El Al is not only a national airline," explains President Ben-Ari, a scarred veteran of the 1948 Israeli-Arab...
...stage in U.C.L.A.'s Royce Hall last week, the Los Angeles Philharmonic and Conductor Zubin Mehta got ready to play. Unlike most concertgoers, the audience fastened its attention not on the musicians but on Syn-Ket, a strange instrument set on a table in mid-stage...
When Composer-Pianist John Eaton, 33, began to play his Concert Piece for Syn-Ket and Symphony Orchestra, the audience quickly discovered that there was nothing childish about the instrument. Syn-Ket is the first machine capable of performing electronic music "live" in the concert hall. Like the various sound synthesizers that have preceded it, Syn-Ket can approximate known instrumental and noninstrumental sounds-and create a few that are not so well known. It does not have all the range and flexibility of those synthesizers, but it does have one advantage. They normally put their sounds onto tape, which...
Barthelme uses a somewhat blunter instrument in Robert Kennedy Saved from Drowning, a character study of the politician composed of paragraphs and fragments of popular journalism. Press cliches and pseudo quotes from the candidate are alternated until Kennedy himself seems little more than a collage of newsprint. The story is an exhilarating experiment in the dynamics of hero-making, though its effectiveness depends too obviously on which way the reader's political bias leans...