Word: instrumentality
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Vague clamorings are being heard of an art that insists it is the music of the age. It appears a freakish thing, unusual in sound as well as in mechanics. Once in a great while, a man will invent an instrument for the sake of expressing an idea better than it could be expressed in any other medium. Such an invention was the foot pedal that made Chopin's genius possible...
George Antheil believes himself on the track of such a creation. His new instrument is the percussion symphony, employing ten pianos, one mechanical piano, xylophones, airplane propeller, wind machines, electric machines, bells- but no strings, brasses, woodwinds or reeds. He wants to express America, Africa, steel. While his Slavic blue eyes grow round with vision, he will assure the interviewer that to him a good Ford engine seems more beautiful than a mediocre painting...
...Power of the most high proceeded through natural barriers without injuring them in any way. Mary was not the passive instrument of the Holy Ghost; she cooperated by supplying the matter, her body and her blood...
High among the foremost prejudices of our academic forbears, however, was that which led them to look upon the theatre with particular horror and loathing, as the breeder of corruptness and the instrument of the devil...
...York Telephone officials, genial last week with their 1926 profits of $26,701,702 ($19,024,733 in 1925) from service to 2,596,552 telephones, capitulated. They officially offered subscribers who wanted cradle type ("French") telephones, having seen them used in the cinema, the convenient instrument-for 50c a month extra charge...