Word: instrument
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...principal lights of this world are Adams, Dunster and Kirkland, which remain active throughout the year. Dunster features Sunday afternoon sightreadings in the library to which anyone with an instrument and a music stand is invited. At Kirkland, the proximity of dining hall and junior common room has inspired a successful series of after-dinner concerts designed to fill the gap between dinner and an evening at the movies...
...Smear." "Senator Long has misused his investigating subcommittee-first, as an instrument for trying to keep Jimmy Hoffa out of prison; subsequently, after Hoffa went in, to get him out," wrote LIFE'S William Lambert. He catalogued Long's friendships with Missouri Teamsters, his excessively fervent praise for Hoffa at a Miami Beach Teamster convention last year, his subcommittee's apparent fascination with whether federal agents had illegally bugged telephone conversations between Hoffa and one of his lawyers-a charge that, if proven by the committee, might possibly have freed Hoffa...
...shut up" dissent on the war. The New York Post called his trip a "search-and-destroy" mission laid on by the President against the antiwar faction. Complained Minnesota's Democratic Senator Eugene McCarthy: "I have grave reservations about using a field commander on active duty as an instrument to make a case which is not only military but also political...
...work is written in an intense, epigrammatic twelve-tone style. There is a constant alternation of various solo instruments as the material reverberates from one timbre to another. The 'cello engages in running dialogue with the various soloists, remaining on equal footing with the instruments that happen to be playing at any given moment. Except for the fact that the 'cello plays more often than any other instrument, the work is more a concerto for orchestra than a vehicle for the 'cello...
...same issue of Science, a group headed by Caltech Geologist Bruce Murray contends that the Russians may well have already contaminated both Venus and Mars. In 1965, there was a failure aboard Russia's Venus 3, which was to parachute a sterilized instrument capsule to the surface of Venus. As a result, they believe, both the capsule and the unsterilized spacecraft hit the Venusian surface. A similar mishap that same year may have caused the unsterilized Russian probe called Zond 2 to impact on the surface of Mars...