Word: instruments
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...destination in life to make the cello as beloved an instrument as the violin and piano," Rostropovich has said. "But this cannot be until there are more and great new works for the cello." Thus he has inspired composers such as Prokofiev, Shostakovich, Miaskovsky, Kabalevsky, Piston and Britten to write repeatedly...
...many novels, like Madame Bovary; he has read too many novels like Madame Bovary. He is condemned to work out the hassles of his marriage in a long, unfinished and unfinishable novel. His wife Maureen--whose perfumed adoration and melodramatic rages recall Charlotte Haze, Lolita's mother--is the instrument which most threatens his manhood, most demands defense through the only means he knows--writing. Maureen claims that she could be Tarnopol's Muse, if only he'd let her. The problem is exactly that she is his Muse, irresistibly, inescapably. She is what his literary psychoanalysis is all about...
TOURISM. It was a political issue in the past. When [U.S. Secretary of State John Foster] Dulles put the squeeze on us, he stopped tourism to Egypt.* I hope tourism will not be a political instrument in the future, although I have no fear if Dr. Kissinger issues passports...
...felt a general need for an instrument for the expression of black musical creativity," Lucas says. At first oriented toward sacred music, the group later developed a wider range, and it added poetry and prose readings. "We wanted to try and fill the vacuum for black creative arts. We saw it as a chance for spiritual communion, a forum for political views and for our belief in God," says Lucas...
Rivera's avowed "sacred cause" is "to use television as an instrument of social change." He is not humble: "I don't care about being Walter Cronkite. Kissinger is more my hero. I consider myself both a newsman and a newsmaker in effecting change in society. It was frustrating to be limited to a local audience," he adds. "As a local newsman, the most powerful man I could influence was the mayor...