Word: instrumentality
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...they use exercises for difficulties which they recognize as muscular (cross eyes, walleyes, etc.). Exercise equipment may be simply a pin which a patient watches while it is brought up to his nose, or a complex instrument like the synoptophore, third cousin to a stereoscope, which not only exercises eyes but helps diagnosis as well. An eye-exerciser sponsored by American Optical Co.'s Dr. J. F. Neumueller (see cut) combines mirrors, lenses, lights and stereoscopic images to give eye muscles a strenuous workout...
Tabuteau's technique is matched by his musicianship. He can turn a melodic phrase with a lyric grace matched by few virtuosos of any instrument. Famous pianists and violinists who play with the Philadelphia Orchestra listen reverently to the accent of his Beethoven or Brahms. Other oboists* listen to Philadelphia recordings and performances just to study Tabuteau...
...oboist's technique begins long before he puts his instrument to his mouth. For Tabuteau, it begins in his medieval-looking fourth-floor workshop. There he whittles to perfection the paper-thin, cigaret-shaped reeds on whose shaping and adjustment oboe tone heavily depends. A flawed reed can make even the best playing sound like a tin horn. Tabuteau spends hours every day scraping away with a razorlike knife...
Young Man from Yale. Baker's letter was the catalyst that changed the limping, directionless Council into the powerful educational instrument it is today. To Cleveland came the young instructor from Yale-Brooks Emeny, the Council's present director. Graduated from Princeton in 1924, Emeny selected diplomacy as a career, studied abroad for three years as a Carnegie Fellow in international...
...look upon our neighbor either as a customer or a competitor or an instrument of production. The eminent dignity of human beings forbids [this]. . . . Man is a moral, rational and spiritual being. He needs material goods*. . . but he does not need them without limit. . . . Every act of every man is a moral act, to be tested by moral, and not by economic, criteria...