Word: instrumentalized
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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Outside the Soviet Union, the KGB seems to embody Western fear and loathing of the Soviet system. Almost from its inception as an instrument of "revolutionary justice" following the Bolshevik revolution, the Soviet secret police, known successively as the Cheka, GPU, OGPU, NKVD, NKGB, MGB and, since 1954, the KGB, has been synonymous with terror and coercion. It brings to mind the worst excesses of the Stalinist period: the public show trials and confessions exacted through torture, the random arrests and midnight executions in the infamous Lubyanka prison. KGB "sleepers" penetrating to the heart of Western intelligence services...
...think the appointment of Hodel is a hopeful sign. They've obviously appointed some one who wants to make the department into an effective instrument as far as I can tell I think in the emergency preparedness area, the department is doing a pretty good job. Other areas I think the expenditure's been cut back too far. I think that's basically...
What was his strongest impression? "It is such a simple instrument of death," Wilde recalls. "It was more comfortable than I had expected, but very eerie and very chilling nonetheless " Wilde's memorable account of what it is like to be strapped into an electric chair appears on the cover and serves as an introduction to Andersen's story...
...Cockney thug blowing up a bank in "There Goes a Tenner." Her frequent use of electronic voice-altering techniques help set the mood of many of the songs. At the end of "Keep it Open" the words are lost and her voice seems to become another instrument. She seems to sing backwards along a wavering Oriental line...
DIED. Mildred Dilling, 88, virtuoso and zestful champion of the harp, who helped to popularize solo recitals on the instrument; in New York City. Casting herself as a wandering troubadour, Dilling toured constantly, playing seven times at the White House and once giving 17 concerts in London during a three-week period. She carefully cultivated calluses on her fingers and at times kept 65 harps in her Manhattan apartment. Dilling seasoned her recitals with spirited lectures on the harp's history and anecdotes like the one about the stranger who pointed to a harp, said, "Lady, learn me that...