Word: instruments
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...caught dead with it. I just can't believe it isn't a mental burden."* Others, including faculty members at St. John's itself, point out that Van Doren's mind comes through on TV not as a card-index file but as a reasoning instrument that explores a memory clearly embedded in taste...
...even the reader who has no ulterior motives often turns to the perceptive critic, when the critic can see, and he cannot. Searching like Diogenes, he tries to use the critic for a light. Unfortunately, his instrument is as unsuitable as Diogenes', which dooms them both to failure. And he would rather not live in a barrel...
...synagogue, and noticed that when the choir began to sing, Lennie was so moved that he began to cry. As for the organ ? "It was the Mighty Wurlitzer itself to me." De spite his interest in the neighbor's piano, the Bernsteins never had a musical instrument in the house until Lennie was ten. Then they were saddled with a "brown upright horror" that Aunt Clara wanted to get rid of. To Lennie it sounded like a seraph's harp. His reluctant parents ? who really hoped he might go into the beauty- parlor-supply business ? allowed...
LABOR POLICY FIGHT over whether U.S. should pull out of International Labor Organization is turning in favor of I.L.O. New report by committee of business-endorsed experts, saying I.L.O. can be effective anti-Communist instrument, should make the difference when issue is voted on in next fortnight by National Association of Manufacturers, U.S. Chamber of Commerce. Some members of the two groups had questioned whether I.L.O. is socialistic, especially since Communist countries also belong...
...would in effect be an instrument for proving that the Humanities have an important place even in a business education, and as such it would be a new focus not only at the Business School but throughout educational circles. This type of program, as the Dean of Columbia's School of Business has written, 'may be the most exciting challenge of all in the years ahead, for it seems to imply a greater awareness of the quasi-political status in which the business manager now finds himself. It suggests that the great minds of yesterday, working with the problems...