Word: instrument
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...play an instrument, the only real way to go about learning about classical music is to go to concerts, listen to recordings, and secondarily, to read about it. Many people see classical music as an amorphous, uninviting mess because unlike many other types of music, it generally has no words to help you remember the melody. There is no substitute for listening, and listening intently...
...cost of $4.4 billion, the tunnel would be the priciest scientific instrument ever built. Is it worth it? The answer -- from the array of Governors, particle physicists, academicians and university officials lining up for congressional hearings this week to speak in favor of the appropriation of a $36 million down payment for the superconducting supercollider -- is yes, yes, 4.4 billion times...
Another idea: use sounding rockets to boost detection equipment up 100 miles, allowing a five-minute viewing window of the southern skies before falling back to earth. A third: "Everyone who has got an instrument in his closet is digging it out and petitioning NASA for support to go to Australia and fly it in a balloon," says Marvin Leventhal, a physicist with AT&T's Bell Labs. Leventhal and his collaborator Crawford MacCallum, a physicist with the Sandia Corp., already have their balloon, a plastic monster so huge (600 to 700 ft. tall) that its material could be used...
There will also be musical performances ranging from traditional to classic to modern. Andrew J. Joseph '89 will play a traditional Korean instrument and Sharon E. Chen '88 will play violin. Three freshmen will also perform in what organizers say will be an innovative trio...
...preliminaries are finally over, the pipes assembled and tuned, and it is time to do some serious piping. Britton straps himself into his instrument like a fighter pilot getting ready for combat. First comes the bellows, a smaller version of the fireplace variety, belted next to his body and held under his right arm (whence comes the name: Uilleann is based on the Gaelic word for elbow). The bellows replaces a Scotsman's lungs in filling the leather bag that drives the sound. The bag goes under his left arm; out of it and across his lap comes a collection...