Word: instruments
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...Tape Recording. Mao chose the People's Liberation Army, as one instrument to spread the revolution, and put Defense Minister Lin Piao to work preparing it for its mission of spreading the gospel-and trying to ensure its loyalty, which is the key to much that happens in Red China. Always far more than a fighting machine, the P.L.A engages in everything from road and dam construction to social services to making propaganda movies. A year before the Revolution got under way, Lin abolished ranks in the P.L.A., a hint of how far back toward some vision of beneficent...
Misguided Mass. In conception, the concerto is an extension of the ideas that Carter expounded in his 1959 String Quartet No. 2, in which the "individual behavior patterns" of each instrument clash and clamor for attention like so many egocentrics in a group-therapy session. Carter describes his Piano Concerto as a conflict between man and society: "The piano is born. Then the orchestra teaches it what to say. The piano learns. Then it learns the orchestra is wrong. They fight and the piano wins-not triumphantly, but with a few weak, sad notes-sort of Charlie Chaplin humorous...
Those brown eyes are Scofield's secret weapon, says Sir Laurence Olivier, but others think it is the voice. "You can't take your ears off him," wrote one London reviewer. It is an instrument of unmatched subtlety and quiet amplitude. Scofield agrees that "what reaches them is the voice-not the quality but the conviction of the voice...
...Texas Instruments Inc., which grew big by making little nothings (transistors and integrated circuits), owes much of its $580 million-a-year success to John Erik Jonsson, 65, who assembled the corporate team that converted the old Geophysical Service Inc. to electronics after World War II. Last week, having reached retirement age, Brooklyn-born Jonsson stepped down as board chairman. His successor: Patrick Eugene Haggerty, 52, who as vice president and then president during the firm's remarkable growth matched Jonsson's financial know-how with his own expertise in electrical engineering. Haggerty will stay on as chief...
...rugged individual who knows his own mind and goes his own way. The San Pablo is not going his way. The ship is presented as an instrument of imperialism: the crewmen live like mandarins while coolies do all the work...