Word: instrument
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Smokey Joe's at Ken more Square. Remember that Sunday, drinking beer from pitchers and cradling transistors tuned to the Detroit game. "YAZ, YAZ ,YAZ," we shouted as the fiddle player swung his instrument at an imaginary pitch, and clapped as the band struck up with "Hold That Tiger...
...British pavilion, flickering images of medieval pomp and ceremony are flashed on rough stone walls, as a multichannel instrument-plus-electronic score by Guy Wolfenden, equally blurred at first, moves on from muttered chaos to an idealized, magisterial fanfare. France has at its axis an abstract structure of curved interlocking planes and flashing lights, designed by Sculptor-Composer Yannis Xenakis, who also provided a flickering musical score that mirrors the visual shapes...
...exchange of punts gave Harvard the ball at midfield. Gatto again was the primary instrument of attack. The squat scatter showed all the moves that gained 700 yards last year and, some claimed, a few new ones, as he reversed fields for a 16-yard pickup, then carried 19 yards for a touchdown. On the payoff play, left end Fritz Reed took care of two Leopards, and Gatto's cutting and deception took care of the rest...
...know how to make it sound like that-or are we going to do it like we write songs? Take a guess and use instinct. So we said, right, what we'll do to save all the arranging, we'll take the whole orchestra as one instrument. And we just wrote it down like a cooking recipe: 24 bars; on the ninth bar, the orchestra will take off, and it will go from its lowest note to its highest note...
...What bitter tea it is to read that "two-way radio" [Aug. 25] has been "lifted" from its "ham" stage, .to its role as "key instrument in a mushrooming minute-man-like communications network!" TIME must know that since the 1920s the ham operator has provided emergency communications worldwide; has served in disaster areas, has often been the only link to scientific expeditions; has been active in space communications; has provided trained electronics personnel in wartime; has invested millions of dollars in communications equipment capable of operation independently of commercial power sources. Perhaps better to say that two-way radio...