Word: instruments
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...about the outcome of the season, Broun was ruminating about one of the finer points of the game. "Legend placed the fountain of youth in Florida," he reported, "and coaches like Tony Cuccinello here, hitting his billionth fungo, suggest that the legend is true. With the fungo bat, an instrument as thin as a diplomat's umbrella, Cuccinello and other artists can place a ball just where a perspiring fatty can't quite grasp it. It's as precise and complicated an art as needlepoint and gets about as much attention." Investigating other byways of sport, Broun...
...testimony of statistics, an automobile is clearly an instrument of destruction, if not outright murder (worldwide, automobiles kill 200,000 persons a year). By Freudian analysis, it is the supreme expression of aggression in an increasingly depersonalized society. Under these circumstances, driving a car should be an urgent matter of concern for Christian moralists, contends France's Abbe Hubert Renard, and in a 306-page book entitled The Automobilist and Christian Morality, he attempts to fashion a schema of ethical principles for the Christian driver...
...drinking their reclaimed water, the students (who are being paid $3 per hour for their trouble) are performing other duties that will give space scientists an insight into the behavior of crews on long space missions. Each man is assigned daily make-work chores, such as reading instruments, following instructions radioed in from outside and manipulating controls. At regular intervals, they take one another's pulse, respiration and blood pressure or enter a medical instrument unit that enables physicians outside the cabin to perform a remote-controlled medical checkup...
Miss Wilsen's voice (her "instrument" as vocalists in the know might say) is basically as lovely as her appearance, though it can have an unpleasant choked sound in the lower register. Her performance at Holmes unfortunately revealed serious technical problems in handling the music. The Bach solo cantata was the closest to coloratura the Master ever came, and is a tough order for anyone to handle. Wednesday night Bach's elegant roulades were indistinct and slow; the tempo dragged at every soprano entrance. The accompanying trumpet, string quartet, and harpsichord, though. perfectly competent, was unconducted and therefore had major...
Lynn said yesterday that he had had a "utopian impulse" and decided to act on it. "This school could be an instrument of reconciliation, a model interracial, urban university. It gives you a chance to believe that your presence makes a difference. His decision parallels a recent move by John U. Monro '38, former dean of the College, who is now director of freshmen studies at Miles College in Birmingham...