Word: instruments
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...then spend a day of slow, painstaking research in his laboratory. Americans love speed and power on the highway, but they are the most disciplined drivers in the world. While the French, Italian or German driver burns out his batteries with his horn and uses his car as an instrument of vengeance ("In Germany," says one psychoanalyst, "anger is a status symbol"), the American knows that he must drive as part of a group. Although Americans endure queues, bad service, inept repairmen, and surly sales help with remarkable stoicism, French Philosopher Jacques Maritain once suggested that they are impatient with...
...documents also calls upon the States to end its embargo with these mainland and propose to Peking a new phase of bilateral negotiate the items of arms control, the force as an instrument of policy, range of diplomatic representa- tion...
After 1847, when a German jeweler and flutist named Theobald Boehm perfected the sophisticated instrument now in use, the French eagerly adopted it. By World War I, flutists like Claude Paul Taffanel, Georges Barrere and Marcel Moyse had produced an impressive tradition of virtuosity. Oddly enough, the romantic composers could not find a place in their palette for the infinite colors of the flute, but Debussy and Ravel, the great impressionists, splashed patches of flute all over their sound paintings. Suddenly instrumentalists began to clamor for flute lessons. In Europe, the great teacher was Marcel Moyse; in the U.S. William...
...Angeles, the world's greatest telescopes point skyward. Atop Mount Palomar is the 200-in. Hale telescope and a 48-in. Schmidt (no relation) wide-angle scope. On Mount Wilson is a 100-in. telescope, one of the world's largest, and a 60-in. instrument that would be the pride of most other observatories. The twin 90-ft. antennas of one of the world's finest radio telescopes stare at the sky from nearby Owens Valley...
Qikartissivik. The instrument of self-help was the cooperative, chosen because it would belong to the Eskimo and because it was the most simple and therefore the most comprehensible of marketing systems. Even so, the concepts often boggled minds whose exercises in community action had never gone much beyond the equitable dissection of a harpooned seal. Introduced to the unfathomable mysteries of a credit union, for example, the Eskimos called it qikartissivik, "The place where the money is stopped...