Word: instrumentality
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Best Hope. "After all our victories, we are now faced by perils, both grave and near, and by problems more dire than have ever confronted Christian civilization . . . There remains, however, a key of deliverance: . . . the creation of a world instrument, capable at least of giving to all its members security against aggression...
...style colonial imperialism is dead as an instrument of development. Capitalism must shoulder what President Harry Truman called a "bold new program." Specific examples of what capitalist enterprise can do were given by Nelson Rockefeller, president of the International Basic Economy Corp., a business with the avowed purpose of raising living standards through the use of American know-how in backward areas. The audience sat fascinated as he told how the corporation saved Brazil $100 million a year by spraying coffee plantations with an insecticide, killing an African pest called broca. With obvious pride in American resourcefulness, he gleefully described...
...British wartime leader asked for the orcation of a world instrument capable at least of giving to all its members Security against Aggression," but falled to make specific proposals toward this end. However, he mentioned the "brave and ardent support" felt on the Continent for the cause of a United Europe, and praised the United States as an example of "new-won supremacy that has not been used for self-aggrandizement but only for further sacrifice...
...taught sons Peter and Lewis (Lewis is now 28 and a composer-teacher at the University of Texas) to listen to records. Says Peter: "Sounds corny, but I always liked Beethoven." He was set to studying sight-reading at seven, could read music before he could play an instrument, still plays "terrible piano." At 17, he went to Ohio's Oberlin Conservatory, then after a spell in the Air Force, took his degrees (including a Ph.D.) at Rochester's Eastman School of Music...
...range, Vyacheslav Molotov was "a man of outstanding ability and cold-blooded ruthlessness . . . His cannonball head, black mustache and comprehending eyes, his slab face, his verbal adroitness and imperturbable demeanor, were appropriate manifestations of his qualities and skill. He was above all men fitted to be the agent and instrument of the policy of an incalculable machine...