Word: instrumentality
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...conductor's job is to make harmony. He plays the most complicated musical instrument conceivable-a symphony orchestra. When he plays well, he has only to raise his hand, or nod his head, and strings bow in unison, brasses, flutes and kettledrums come...
Earlier, the Navy had contended that even a $500,000,000 cut in its funds might make the fighting fleets "immobile and impotent as an instrument of national policy...
...harp that once through Tara's halls the soul of music shed" last week became belatedly the official coat of arms of the Irish Government. But the old instrument, concluded Dublin's newspapers, was still as mute as the poet said. One trouble was that in all Eire there were only eight people bothering to learn to play the thing...
...Christian survivors of the weird, 18-month Communist siege of the Chinese walled city of Yungnien were convinced this week that the airplane would never replace the raven as a satisfactory instrument for airborne delivery. For a year Yungnien's dwindling population had been perilously supplied by the Nationalist Government. Great, 60-pound loaves of unleavened bread and cases of canned fish, pitched from low-flying aircraft, had warded off starvation, but they had also: 1) punched gaping holes in almost every roof; 2) leveled some dwellings by direct "hits" on the center beams; 3) killed at least...
...oversimplified, cleverly demagogic argument, he scoffed at the idea that German nationalism might ever again become dangerous. Said he: "It will never become a danger to the world [except] as the instrument of a victorious power against other victorious powers." In a pointedly anti-Russian passage, he promptly played one victorious power against another: "We recognize Russia as a piece of Europe. . . . But the thing against which we ... always will defend ourselves is the attempt to transplant cultural and political conceptions to German soil...