Word: instrumentality
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...just revolution to succeed. By paying Castro's price for a thousand good men, we give him the means to strengthen his enslavement of 6,000,000 others. The American people will, for the first time to my knowledge, be making use of ransom and tribute as an instrument of policy. If we start to pay tribute now for 1,000 of the one billion Communist hostages, where will it stop...
Implacable Challenge. The nonintervention doctrine is especially unsuited to the world of the 1960s. The West is faced with the implacable challenge of Communism, which incessantly practices intervention of many kinds as an instrument of gradual world domination. To combat Communist interventions, the West must be ready and willing to intervene. Those who would commit the U.S. to nonintervention in the midst of the struggle against Communism might well ponder some lines that Philosopher John Stuart Mill, author of the famous tract On Liberty, wrote more than a hundred years ago: "The doctrine of nonintervention, to be a legitimate principle...
...painstaking worker ("The first instrument is the wastebasket"), Varèse creates his "organized sound" in a studio in Greenwich Village surrounded by the tools of his trade: gongs, sirens, whistles, drums. He is convinced that electronic music is clearly the music of the future, but he does not expect it to make more conventional composition obsolete ("Just because there are other ways of getting there, you do not kill the horse"). Still living modestly ("I am not an expensive animal"), he is as rigidly indifferent to the reactions of the public as he ever was. "My privilege," says Edgard...
...group deserves praise just for attempting such a giant as Mahler, not to mention negotiating his complexities with competence. For Mahler makes incredible technical demands: every instrument must be a soloist; the conductor must dovetail many scattered parts; and a solo voice must blend evenly with the ever swelling and falling background. The simplicity and brevity of these five last Rueckert songs make the job no less difficult. Their exposed, masterful orchestration fairly invites misfortune...
...dropped a piano from a great height, the U.S. last week began gingerly assessing the wreckage of President Kennedy's hopeful new hemisphere Alliance for Progress. The Cuban crash still echoed throughout Latin America, and much woodwork was splintered. But after examination, it seemed as if the instrument might still be made to play...