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...system. Many American analysts would disagree, believing that the U.S. has become complacent because of its sense of military superiority to the U.S.S.R. But Aron maintains that Westerners sometimes feel that the Soviet leaders "possess an infernal machine capable of blowing capitalism sky-high or else some virtually infallible instrument for guiding their strategy." This crisis of confidence has been accelerated in Europe by the Third World's pervasive contempt for the West. Aron believes that the tendency of Africans and Latin Americans to blame the persistence of poverty on colonialism is a major victory of the Marxist-Leninists...
Only Eno has used the capabilities of the synthesizer to create entirely new sounds, noises which make it a unique instrument, not an imitator. Bowie succeeds on Lodger by harnessing Eno's abstruse, intellectual sounds and molding them into songs with human interest for a mass audience. That's not decadent; it's visionary...
...Bernadette Robi, 21, with assistance from beaming teammates and friends like Franco Harris, O.J. Simpson and Sam ("Bam") Cunningham. As part of the mostly traditional ceremony, Swann, who writes poetry on the sidelines, recited one ditty composed for his bride ("My soul is your soul and time is our instrument to build life upon love"). He also explained the Swanns' way: "We're both very oldfashioned. That's why we didn't live together before we got married...
When Wade hunches over his banjo, he is a figure of rapturous communion, a man lost in a love affair with an instrument. The songs may be poignantly plaintive, boisterously celebratory or ironically funny. His fingers pluck the strings with steely precision or waft over them like a passing zephyr. Always there is the pulsing drive of his ever moving feet, percussively accenting the chords and the words...
...Byrd, Weems developed many navigational methods and devices, among them the Weems plotter, treasured by pilots from World War II on. An adviser to Byrd and Charles Lindbergh, Weems was often called back to duty after retiring as a Navy captain in 1933, the last time to devise an instrument allowing astronauts to find their way without using computers...