Word: instrumentally
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...several inherent advantages as an instrument of suicide, aside from its ready availability. Because it cannot be clearly labeled, autocide not only avoids the social stigma attached to suicide, but also, as Arthur Miller's Willy Loman realized, almost automatically guarantees double indemnity on most life-insurance policies. There is even an emotional release not found in most other forms of self-destruction...
...claim of modern industry on the brains and energy and honor and intelligence of man exceeds the claims that have ever before been made upon the intelligence and character of man. Modern industry, if we could only encompass it within our feeble imaginations, is the instrument by which it is given us to achieve in our lifetime nearly all that mankind has struggled for in centuries of blood and sweat and futility." April...
...enable their experimental instrument to accelerate a continuous stream of electrons, Schwettman, Physicist William Fairbank and their associates lined the inner walls of their 5-ft. prototype with lead and surrounded the tube with an aluminum cylinder containing liquid helium cooled to -457° F.-about two degrees above absolute zero. At this temperature, the lead lining becomes a superconductor, losing practically afl of its heat-causing electrical resistance and allowing the continuous flow of high-energy electrons without overheating...
...Mstislav Rostropovich and the London Symphony Orchestra performed his Variations for Cello and Orchestra, a work that Rostropovich asked him to compose two years ago to enlarge the meager repertory of the cello. "He paid me the compliment-unusual for a virtuoso-of asking me to compose for the instrument and not for the player," says Piston...
...compete on equal terms with men. Jacqueline Du Pré is big enough, both musically and physically (5 ft. 9 in., 150 Ibs.), perhaps because she literally grew up with a cello. The daughter of an English business executive, she was four years old when she heard the instrument played on a BBC broadcast in London. "All I remember," she says, "is that it had a nice sound. So I asked Mother for a cello...