Word: instruments
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Miss Field resolves these subleties with astonishing perceptiveness. Her most powerful instrument is her voice, which at its best moments is trying desperately to attain Southern elegance and always barely missing. Especially striking is her use of it in a scene at the end of the first act. Alone on the stage, she telephones an acquaintance to offer her a subscription to a pulp magazine, and when she speaks the listener mocks her smallness yet nearly weeps that a Southern Lady should rejoice so at finally making the sale. There is another extraordinary scene later, when Amanda tries to entertain...
...have launched an Orbiting Solar Observatory, the second of its kind, next Tuesday. Leo Goldberg, Higgins Professor of Astronomy, and William Liller, Robert Wheeler Willson Professor of Astronomy, are in charge of a Harvard team that has spent over five years building an ultraviolet spectrometer for the OSO. Their instrument, demolished yesterday, was meant to look at light waves from...
...satellite, when it is finally launched, will contain several experiments from government agencies and universities, in addition to the Harvard instrument. All the projects are designed to reveal more about them and study those forms of solar radiation which affect the atmosphere and magnetic field of the earth...
...addition, Ashby said, the graduate's degree "obliges him to live in a Western way, whether he likes to or not. It stretches his nerve between two spiritual words, two systems of ethics, two horizons of thought. In his hands he holds the terrifying instrument of Western civilization. His problem is how to apply this instrument to the welfare of his own people...
...Through the Courts. The resulting legal battle between C.A.V. and the Banco Nacional, an instrument of the Cuban government, stirred up interest out of all proportion to the $175,251 that was at stake. Rooting for C.A.V. were the stockholders of all the Castro-expropriated companies, once worth hundreds of millions. The U.S. State Department considered the case momentous because it involved a basic principle of U.S. law: "the act of state doctrine" that originated in England nearly 300 years ago. The doctrine was spelled out by the Supreme Court back in 1897: "Every sovereign State is bound to respect...