Word: instrumentally
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...cover picture on Sergeant Pepper's Lonely Hearts Club Band focuses on a grave, with the flowers at its bottom shaped like a bass guitar-McCartney's instrument-and like the letter "P." On the inside photo McCartney wears on his left arm a patch reading "O.P.D." (Officially Pronounced Dead), the British equivalent of "D.O.A...
...more advanced model, but a shortage of time and funds prevented it from flying. When the astronomers realized that the advanced version would not be ready in time, an extra copy of the earlier OSO-IV telescope was pressed into service (the Observatory had built a prototype, a flight instrument, and a spare for that satellite). This instrument was overhauled and improved in less than a year-an unusually short time for space hardware...
Deafen the audience. Cudgel it severely about the ears with a blunt amplifying instrument. A hard-rock Modcom musical gives a theatergoer an acoustic third degree. His eardrums are refunded on the sidewalk. However, the test of a good musical score remains unvarying: not whether one can hum the songs but whether one can tell them apart. Hair has a beguilingly individuated score; Salvation does...
...take on the leadership of the spontaneous Montgomery bus boycott in 1955, they began to understand what the mission would be. All along the extraordinary path that his life then took he agonized over the difficult consequences of his actions. But he never doubted that he was the instrument of God. Once when a mood of deep depression seemed suddenly to have lifted from him overnight, a reporter wondered if he had changed because he had talked with someone. "No. I haven't talked with anyone," said King. "I have only talked with...
...Edward's weakness is more than personality; it is politics. Disorder in the passions is mirrored by disorder in the state. Gaveston's name tolls like a bell through Edward's lines, but for Edward's enemies the favorite is merely an instrument to hand; his death is simply an incident in the long war between king and barons. In tantrum at court, in victorious fury of battle, then defeated and bound, Edward is stalked by his encircling nobles. This play is about the state, the nature of the medieval constitution, and the Renaissance fascination with...