Word: instruments
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...destroying the foundations of Japanese militarism. General Douglas MacArthur after World War II not only stripped the Emperor of his divinity, but banned movies "glorifying war," prohibited such samurai sports as kyujutsu (archery) and kendo (fencing with bamboo swords), and saddled Japan with a constitution renouncing war "as an instrument of national policy...
...difference between what Orwell saw in 1937 and his vision of 1948 seems slight. In the Spanish War he saw words become the instrument of many lies. In 1984 he imagined a time when, no longer an instrument, language might become the exemplification of a lie that had gotten beyond any man's control...
...General Dag Hammarskjold, declaring: "The government of Egypt are pleased to announce that the Suez Canal is now open for normal traffic." Accompanying the letter was a "declaration" of President Gamal Abdel Nasser's charter for the operation of the canal. The declaration, wrote Fawzi, "constitutes an international instrument," and he asked Hammarskjold to register it as such...
...proliferation of the sects," he writes in the current issue, "[is a] judgment upon us all. But accepting the judgment has never necessarily entailed embracing the instrument of judgment." Psychiana, a mail-order course in positive thinking, showed how "pathetic an expedient" it was when it collapsed completely upon Founder Frank B. Robinson's death in 1948. As for the doctrine of the ubiquitous Witnesses: "What response but horror can there be to this conversion of profound myth to lurid legend"-the bloody Armageddon which they eagerly anticipate between 1970 and 1980. The eclecticism of Unity (a self-help...
...Queen Victoria soon summoned him to London for a command performance. But his early success gave him little contentment. Tormented by the carnage of World War I, he contemplated suicide, finally settled down in the 1920s in Catalonia, where he conducted a first-rate orchestra ("the grandest instrument of them...