Word: instruments
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...complete, and often younger than she," Menuhin makes clear that his own career had less exciting origins. At two, his parents smuggled him into a matinee of the San Francisco Symphony; at four, unappeased by a toy violin ("this travesty of my longings enraged me"), he acquired his first instrument; by the time he was twenty he was an established master on both sides of the Atlantic...
Mosca, the Fox's Fly, is the oily instrument of his misdeeds. As played by Ben Kingsley, he is curiously modern, the unctuous image of the Madison Avenue p.r. man. "Mosca, this was thy invention?" asks Volpone after a show by his weird trio of dwarf, hermaphrodite and eunuch. "If it please my patron," he answers. "Not else...
...into a superdense mass in the cylinder, a cold engine block can keep the motor from starting at all. The Olds diesel has a block heater and a "prechamber," where the mixture is briefly heated by a glow plug. The driver turns on the ignition, then waits for an instrument-panel light to shine, telling him that he can step on the accelerator to start the engine. At 0° F., that can take a full minute...
...Revel (Without Marx or Jesus), has suffered serious losses of faith in Marxism before-notably with the Hungarian tragedy in the 1950s and the Soviet Union's invasion of Czechoslovakia in 1968. "Nonetheless," Revel adds, "the French left has to hear it played again on another instrument. They had it last time on the piano, now they are getting it on the tuba." In the current context of French politics, the leitmotiv of the New Philosophers may well be the theme that many are yearning to hear...
...what purpose the neutron bomb [July 25]? Looking beyond the political and military rhetoric, there is only one purpose. Mr. Carter calls it an option. The military calls it a deterrent. I see it as simply an instrument of destruction. The priorities governments hold are somehow distorted. We, as Americans, may finance an instrument designed to destroy men not buildings. It's totally absurd. Why value a brick over...