Word: instruments
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...when musical expression was pictorial (in the broadest sense) rather than truly dramatic, and thus more suited to the accompaniment of dance than the lofty depiction of experience. Hippolyte abounds with charming gavottes and minuets, airily scored (Rameau was one of the few Baroque composers to treat every instrument independently). But the critical theatrical moments--Thesee's confrontation of Hippolyte and Phedre, Neptune's grant of clemency to Thesee, the reuniting of Hippolyte and Aricie--Rameau hardly conveys with any distinctive power...
...most cautious and experienced pilots have been known to make just such errors. Example: the St. Louis crash that killed Astronauts Elliott See and Charles Bassett. Pilot See, having missed his first pass at the runway, told the tower that he planned a second instrument-landing approach in his T-38 jet trainer. He inexplicably continued to fly a visual pattern and made a wide turn just below the overcast, ran into a patch of fog, apparently lost orientation, slammed a building-and just barely missed demolishing the room where all the space capsules for the next four Gemini flights...
...improve an already sound record by cutting the accident rate. What the airlines want most is a modern, fail-safe, all-weather traffic-control system. As a first requirement, they need better airports. Of the 709 commercial-airline fields in the U.S., fewer than one half have instrument-landing systems. Worldwide, in 1963, 80% of landing accidents occurred where only 17% of the landings were made-at airports with marginal landing aids. In the developing countries, safety records are far less impressive than...
...closer to realization than at any time in the past." The promising system is McDonnell Aircraft's "Eros" (for Eliminate Range System), which will beep a warning to pilots when two planes get on a collision course. It will also instruct pilots-by means of arrows on the instrument panel -which way to turn to avoid trouble. Everyone is trying to improve altimeters, which are tough to read and may have figured in the first 727 crash, into Lake Michigan, last year. Boeing is tinkering with a radio altimeter, from which a girl's voice calls...
...years that the Big Five-Boston, Chicago, Cleveland, New York and Philadelphia -are being crowded for honors by numerous other contenders. The first to surface was the Pittsburgh Symphony under Conductor William Steinberg. Through unstinting musicianship and an easygoing charm, Steinberg has molded his orchestra into a precision instrument of the highest caliber (TIME, Sept. 11, 1964). Moving west, there are no fewer than five more orchestras which, by the outstanding efforts of their masterbuilder conductors, now merit room at the top with the Big Five and Pittsburgh, comprising, in all, what might be called the Elite Eleven...