Word: instrument
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...Daniel! Daniel! Why are you arresting Daniel?). She acknowledges that she has been the unwitting instrument of Daniel's capture. She sings the distraught Mi sentivo un Giuda! (I was a Judas...
Recent experience should not be forgotten. In the late '40s, with brokendown soldiers crowding the psychiatric wards of Veterans' Administration hospitals, psychosurgery's crude predecessor, lobotomy, became surgically fashionable as a means for quickly and efficiently pacifying violent veterans. Lobotomy, now in disrepute, involved the use of an instrument much like an ice pick to sever the connection between the frontal lobes of the brain. But while the technique generally pacified patients for a while, it also frequently left them with new and unpredictable mental disorders. The crest of enthusiasm for lobotomies left behind thousands of human tragedies...
...tonight seems too long to wait for jazz, put this paper down right now and head for the Temple Walk at Suffolk University, where David Moss is scheduled to play at 1 p.m. Moss will do the Drum Song, and will use 100 different instruments in 90 minutes, and you get it all free. Moss moves from instrument to instrument so fast on the theory that a rolling Moss gathers no rock reviewers. (Sorry...
Microwave landing systems are already used by the military, and will eventually replace the narrow-beam instrument landing devices employed at commercial airports with ones that provide a much larger and more flexible landing approach area (see diagram). Planes under instrument landing control are now brought through the approach area to the runway one at a time in a long single file, like a string of elephants entering a circus arena. The MLS lets planes head into what is, in effect, a huge electronic funnel whose gaping mouth is 80° wide and 20° high (the ILS glide path...
Every artist finds his scale?the size of gesture proper to the image and medium he uses. "The scale of the drawing," Steinberg points out, "is given to you by the instrument you use," and pen drawings, being governed by the radius of the hand, cannot be very large. "The nib has an elasticity meant for writing, and that is why I have always used pen and ink: it is a form of writing. But unlike writing, drawing makes up its own syntax as it goes along. The line can't be reasoned in the mind. It can only...