Word: instrumentations
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Prescience. In San Antonio, after predicting local thunderstorms, Weather Forecaster Milton Rudd went atop the weather station to check instrument readings, was knocked flat by a bolt of lightning...
...writes Father Witcutt, "a seven years' intensive training in how to think . . . We studied every branch of philosophy and theology. Logic was our master and the syllogism our instrument." He was entranced by the church's scholastic system of theology, "glittering and shapely as a machine." Scholastic theology's two fundamentals, says Witcutt, are the Abstract Idea (the essence of every object is comprehensible only to the mind, which is immaterial, spiritual and immortal) and the Beatific Vision ("the plunge of the soul into the Divine...
...rest of the show was no sprig of lilac, but much of it was engagingly different. As coordinated as a precision instrument, Walter Schumann's choral group managed to sound now like an entire circus, again like the string section of a symphony orchestra. Harry Belafonte, singing blues, calypso and spirituals, turned out to be a topnotch TV personality. Best of all were witty Dancers Marge and Gower Champion, who can make their sophisticated routines look joyously impromptu. All in all, 3 for Tonight proved that skill and imagination can be more fun than a lot of expensive scenery...
...cited as examples the fact that war can no longer be considered "an instrument of national policy in the old sense" and the fact that non-governmental transnational activities now have marked effects on world politics...
...cited are examples the fact that war can no longer be considered "an instrument of national policy in the old sense" and the fact that non-governmental transnational activities now have marked effects on world politics...