Word: instrument
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...Instrument of God. Desai rises each morning at 3 or 4 to pray, work at his spinning wheel and practice yoga until about 7. He eats only uncooked food-milk, fruit, cheese, carrot juice-and disdains even cereals. He also rejects alcohol, tobacco and modern medicine, and looks and acts at least 20 years younger than his 81 years. He swore off sex in his early 30s as a way of achieving self-control. In principle he favors national prohibition and regards self-control as the best means of achieving family planning-although, he quickly adds, he realizes that "governments...
...more attention to means than ends," Desai says. "I would not give up truth to save the world." Once, when TIME Correspondent James Shepherd asked him why he always seemed so sure of his own infallibility, Desai replied calmly, "Because I'm an instrument of God." Friends say he has considerably mellowed with age and from his recent period in prison, where he passed the time peacefully spinning yarn, memorizing the Bhagavad-Gita, updating his autobiography and writing about natural medicine...
Social Change. Hine, of course, believed more than that. To him the camera was an instrument of social change: it could shift the world's inequality a little. "I wanted to show the things that had to be corrected," Hine modestly remarked. "I wanted to show the things that had to be appreciated." This ambition arose quite early. Born in 1874 in Oshkosh, Wis., the son of a coffee vendor, Hine grew up working. "After grammar school in Wisconsin's 'Sawdust City,' " he recalled, "my education was transferred to the manual side of factory, store...
Technically, it was a demanding project. Amid the confusion, Hine accosted his subjects, lined them up, got them to look at the camera (an instrument not familiar in Italian villages or Russian hamlets in 1904) and ignited the magnesium flare. "It took all the resources of a hypnotist, a supersalesman and a ball pitcher," he said, "to prepare them to play the game and then to outguess them so most were not either wincing or shutting their eyes when the time came to shoot." The results rank among the greatest camera portraits ever taken, calmly relentless in their inspection...
...time Buddy Tate brought in his alto sax and Warren Vache his trumpet, the audience was flowing with the beat. The last two fleshed out the beat and sailed it out into the hall. The sextet did not trifle with its tunes. Each man handled his instrument like a fifth limb and together they wove the beat into a spell. But the show was still Benny Goodman's, and they called intermission early to bring him on for the second part...