Word: instruments
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...Instrument, O'Hara...
Flying Sparks. Like his music, Nielsen's temperament blended traditional peasant qualities with a progressive sophistication and disenchantment. Born on the bucolic island of Fyn, he made his first "instrument" from various lengths of cordwood, which he banged with a hammer; later he learned violin and trumpet from his father, a house-painter-laborer who played at village dances. He was barely 14 when he left home with a military band to start his career. For most of his life he had to play in orchestras, conduct or teach to support himself: when the Royal Orchestra premiered his Symphony...
Many who know the prerequisites of domestic and foreign peace mourn today the loss of programs which recognize these needs. Yet many of the same people in a fit of pique, would compound the loss--ignoring the least fettered instrument of peace in America today...
...Peace Corps a tool of foreign policy? Not the foreign policy of this country but the domestic policy of 57 nations. Do we speak the official line? Says Dean Rusk, "The Peace Corps cannot be used as an instrument of foreign policy, for to do so would be to destroy its contribution to our foreign policy...
...Instrument, O'Hara...