Word: instruments
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...Gaulle's chosen instrument for the trial was the special Court of Military Justice, from whose verdict there is no appeal, which was set up last year and was to end its existence on Feb. 25. The defendants' attorneys shrewdly tried to delay proceedings until that date so that the case would have to start all over again in a regular court, from which appeals could be taken. But De Gaulle moved to fit the law to his needs. His Cabinet swiftly approved a bill extending the life of the special Court of Military Justice, and the bill...
...enfant terrible in Szell's Cleveland. He arrived in Cleveland in 1946, pruned and rebuilt the orchestra, educated its audience, charmed its angels, and terrified everyone, until he reached a point of supreme control and superb accomplishment. Now, after 17 years, he calls his orchestra "this glorious instrument-an instrument that perfectly reflects my musical ideals...
Almost Aristotelian. Content that he at last has the glorious instrument he has heard in his inner ear all his life. Szell still works tirelessly, training young conductors, learning new scores. His pedagoguery is perfectly undiminished: he gives golf lessons to golfers who play better, teaches tailors how to cut his tails so that the coat will not flap while he conducts: tight armholes, ballooning sleeves...
...ported by the Atomic Energy Commission, and built and jointly controlled by Harvard and M.I.T., is powerful enough to create all the known particles and anti-particles in quantities sufficient to make possible the accurate measurement of their properties. At the moment it is the most powerful instrument of its kind in the world...
...ability, to each according to his needs'-miss just this essential point: that man is greater than the social purposes to which he can be put. He must not be kicked about even with the most high-minded objectives. He is not a means or an instrument. He is an end in himself...