Word: instrumentalization
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...most chilling by-products of the Kremlin's aversion to protest has been its use of the Soviet mental-health-care system as an instrument for suppressing dissent. An untold number of dissidents have been clapped into mental hospitals and sometimes kept under control with mind-numbing drugs. , Now, under Mikhail Gorbachev's policy of glasnost, or openness, Soviet psychiatric practices are finally getting what could prove to be a cathartic airing. Amid demands for reform, the Soviet press has begun printing stories of abuse, corruption and incompetence within the psychiatric establishment. On the political front, Western analysts note that...
...surreal stagecraft with hallucinations and mirages, masterpieces of illusion and self- delusion. Many of the young, for example, cherished (almost autoerotically) the illusion that they were part of "the Revolution," a force of history that would overthrow the power structure in the U.S. And illusion was an indispensable instrument of the war effort: the "body count," for example, or the "light at the end of the tunnel," the longed-for illumination, never seen, that would indicate that victory and salvation were near. At the close of 1967, the official invocation of the light at the end of the tunnel...
Asian or African in origin, the marimba generally is played with one or two mallets in each hand, which are raised and then brought down sharply on the keys, called bars. Stevens has revolutionized the playing of the instrument, pioneering a complex four-mallet technique with a finger grip that allows him to execute broken chords, four-note harmonies and even separate melody and accompaniment by means of something he calls the "one-handed roll": one hand plays two notes tremolo while the other picks out a tune. In his hands, the marimba has gone from being a useful...
...Stevens' new Musicmasters album Bach on Marimba, a selection of the Inventions (originally written for a keyboard instrument) leap and dance crisply, while the chorale Christ lag in Todesbanden shimmers and glows. "With the xylophone, you hear more brittleness," explains Stevens. "With the marimba you hear the air column, a mellow, captivating sound that is rich in bass, like an organ...
...graduate of the Eastman School of Music who lives in Asbury Park, N.J., has been booked for as many as 50 performances, and audience reception has been enthusiastic. Says Stevens: "I'm doing everything I can to legitimize the marimba, get it respected and heard as a classical instrument." Everything, that is, except the mambo...