Word: instruments
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...Defense Secretary McNamara [July 8] is a monstrous man, catalyst for the fusion of U.S. industrial and military might into an instrument designed for world hegemony and destined for moral and material perdition. Can't a voice be raised in support of the ideals on which this nation was founded and nurtured for almost two centuries...
...school," but that reason would rate somewhere on the list if servicemen made lists of such things. We are fighting, yes, because we have to, for the same reasons our fathers had to. We are fighting because our Commander in Chief believes that we are the best instrument for carrying out national policy...
...such diverse settings as a Universalist church on Cape Cod, a 16th century hacienda near Taxco, Mexico, and a leafy glade on the shores of California's Lake Arrowhead, hundreds of amateur U.S. musicians are taking part in a series of workshops. Their subject: advanced noodling. Their instrument: the recorder, a kind of glorified penny whistle with a pedigree...
Among today's grand array of orchestral instruments, the humble recorder - usually a foot-long wooden pipe with seven holes for the fingers and one for the thumb - looks like a pipsqueak. Yet its sweet warblings, wistful twitters and charming coos work such a Pied Piper spell over modern audiences that the recorder has become the fastest-rising instrument in the U.S. With more amateurs taking up the recorder than the violin, cello, viola and bass combined, the number of players has climbed from 100,000 in 1955 to 750,000 last year. The American Recorder Society now boasts...
...comeback of the recorder has been stimulated by the resurgence of interest in baroque music. More than that, the instrument has several appealing points. It is inexpensive, ranging from $3 to $10 for popular home models, up to $700 for a seven-foot professional contrabass that resembles an anti tank weapon. It is easy on the neighbors, and playing it, as Hamlet observed, "is as easy as lying...