Word: instrument
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...tried about everything," recalls Bill, "and in would come yet another professor." All the children were trilingual, or at least bilingual. Bill learned to speak Spanish and French along with English. He also learned to play the piano and-as his detractors are fond of emphasizing-that reactionary instrument, the clavichord...
...private enterprise." It has been a firm conservative tenet that the state must be kept as limited as possible. Yet that belief has run smack into the conservative demand to fight the cold war as vigorously as possible. "Today, as never before," concedes Buckley, "the state is the necessary instrument of our proximate deliverance...
...derives from a desire to complete himself as a musician. Although he has made guest appearances with many orchestras, and for eleven years was one of George Szell's associate conductors of the Cleveland Orchestra, the Atlanta job gives Shaw his first chance to test himself solidly with instrumental music. To take it, he had to sacrifice a lucrative schedule of outside engagements. But he has no regrets: "I'm happiest when I'm building what is in a sense my own instrument...
Diving directly into the planet's dense, murky atmosphere, Russia's 2,427-lb. Venus 4 ejected an egg-shaped, instrument-crammed capsule. Although the mother ship was quickly incinerated by the frictional heat of its plunge, the capsule was insulated by an ablative coating that gradually burned off as it heated. At an altitude of 15.5 miles, when its velocity had been sufficiently slowed by Venusian "air" resistance, the capsule automatically deployed a parachute and began drifting slowly toward the surface. As it descended through the whirling gases, the capsule sniffed them, noted their composition, temperature...
...School's greatness today is the result of expansion and innovation under Griswold. The physical plant and library facilities north of Kirkland St. have mushroomed. More important, the Griswold Deanship witnessed a series of steps to transform the Law School curriculum into a more flexible and more sensitive instrument to deal with living issues. Study centers in urban and international law have been set up, and Griswold has recruited some of the nation's leading Lawyers in those fields. Just as important from the students' point of view, the School will drop second year requirements, starting next year...