Word: instruments
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...problem remained, however: how to build it. After the U.S. entered the war, Oppie was assigned the chief responsibility of figuring that out. At the secret Los Alamos laboratory, he led-and occasionally pushed and shoved-an extraordinary gathering of the country's top minds in constructing the instrument that exploded atop a tower in the desert. When the test bomb detonated, he silently repeated to himself a line from the Bhagavad-Gita Hindu devotional poem: "I am become Death, the shatterer of worlds...
...always lend themselves readily to what is the most intellectually demanding use of the computer: learning how to program it. For this, the inexpensive, easy-to-operate personal computer, entirely self-contained and relying on equipment immediately at the student's side, is an ideal instrument-much more "user friendly," as manufacturers like to say, than big machines. Yet even with a handy micro, programming can overwhelm the uninitiated. The programmer and computer must "speak" a common language...
...command, or umbrage; to feel loyalty or inhibitions; to ponder ethics, self-sacrifice, cowardice, ambition. So vast is the mind's business that even as one makes such a list, its inadequacy is self-evident-the recognition of inadequacy being but another part of an enormous and varied instrument...
...handful of Arabs who sat on the ground near the mosque insisted bitterly that Goodman had somehow acted as an instrument of official Israeli policy. Demanded a bearded young man: "How could the Israeli intelligence services not have known that this would happen? How could the man be crazy and yet be accepted into the Israeli armed forces?" Only a week before the incident, the Arabs asserted, leaflets had been distributed, purportedly from an ultranationalist Jewish group, warning that if Jews were not permitted to pray on the Mount, the place would be taken by force. In fact, two East...
...nonetheless. The singers have a gutsy, raw sound, especially Valerie Gilbert and the woman who calls herself--honest--Isopropyl Pavlova in the program. The band is energetic and terrific-- Noelani Rodriguez on bass, and John Arimond, Regina Arnold, and Morley Robertson on guitar. Robertson's bizarre contortions with his instrument are particularly fun to watch...