Word: instruments
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...Kennedy had entered the presidential race on an antiwar platform, lent more than a little credence to speculation that the President might be contemplating a change in Viet Nam policy-or else had taken the opportunity to disarm critics by giving the impression that he might. Westmoreland, the chief instrument of past policy, could hardly be expected to implement any broad changes...
...three soloists in the Carmina were all praise-worthy. Unconditional raves go to James Jones. His voice is an incredibly flexible instrument capable of producing a full, rich, often truly beautiful tone as well as a wide variety of expressive registrations. He is a gifted actor as well and a thoughtful application of both these talents produced the most genuinely exciting performance of the evening...
PROKOFIEV: THE COMPLETE MUSIC FOR SOLO PIANO (Vox; 2 Vols., each 3 LPs). Composer Sergei Prokofiev was an accomplished concert pianist, and he left a large and lively legacy for his instrument. These recordings include such meditation miniatures as the 20 Visions Fugitives and nine sonatas, among them the famous Seventh, completed during the Battle of Stalingrad. One expects in Prokofiev dissonance, humor, percussiveness and strong drive; yet there is also much sheer lyrical beauty. Budapest-born Gyorgy Sandor plays the melodic passages poignantly and is a sure guide through the harshest chordal clashes-sometimes passionate, sometimes witty, always lucid...
...surprising amount of the new critical spirit looks toward the U.S. as the best instrument and prod for government reform (see box). Only a month or so ago, a South Vietnamese who publicly suggested U.S. interference in the government ran the risk of being charged with "licking the American boots." Now the crisis has convinced many Saigon politicians of the need for more, rather than less, U.S. direction and firmness in guiding the government to reform and action...
Frontlash has a long range potential as an instrument of democratic social changes," he added, through a broad-based "liberal-leftist" coalition of students, labor, and sympathetic members of the middle class...