Word: instruments
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...widow of Walter Rosen, a multimillionaire investment banker who built Caramoor (from the Italian for "dear love") in 1930 and spent the rest of his life filling it with art treasures. He was an amateur pianist, and she made music on the theremin (an electronic instrument that is played by waving the hands over a magnetic field to produce strange, mellifluous wailings...
Harvard's model is (naturally) the prototype. Due to Zultz's untimely death, the instrument is unique. It was acquired in the late 20's by a devoted alumnus and donated to the College. It is kept in a locked room on the third floor of Wadsworth House. Only three men are allowed access to it and their names are known only to the Corporation. It operates roughly on the principle of a seimograph. It measures class spirit...
...would be irresponsible for the CRIMSON to suggest that anyone but the three Keepers completely understands the operation of the Geistgauge. It is an instrument of tremendous delicacy and complexity. Nor has any reporter actually seen the machine...
...adventuresome but much-attacked Delta Ministry, the National Council of Churches' two-year-old experimental instrument of reconciliation between Mississippi's white and Negro people, got a pat on the back and a rap on the knuckles last week from its sponsor. Faced with growing criticism of the project, the council's general board strongly endorsed the Ministry's aims and plans but ordered a study on reorganizing it-in effect conceding that this venture in Christian activism had by no means achieved its goals...
...full of indigestible encomiums. Truman, says Phillips, "put an indelible imprint of greatness on both the presidency and the history of his time." "History has rarely witnessed a more heartening triumph of the simple virtues of unpretentiousness, honesty and courage." "He left the American presidency a stronger, more effective instrument for human governance than he found it." "Harry S. Truman was a quite ordinary man. But he was also a quite extraordinary President...