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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...have to know any of this to enjoy Turangalila. Written for large orchestra, including an eerie electronic instrument called the ondes martenot (memorably employed by Maurice Jarre in the score for Lawrence of Arabia), the symphony is like some fabulous beast howling in the collective unconscious of Western civilization. Heard live, it shakes, it roars and it rattles the fundament, compelling the listener to confront unspoken fears; even on compact disc, the force is still with it. And all courtesy of a mild- mannered French church-organ player who liked nothing better than to walk in the woods and listen...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Holy Terror | 6/29/1992 | See Source »

...year era of the great steel plow, central instrument of American abundance and strength, is ending in an astonishing revolution now sweeping through Maryland and on to the Illinois bottomlands and the high hills of Oregon where corn, soybeans, wheat and cotton are grown. The upheaval in the long, quiet reaches of U.S. farmland has gone largely unnoticed in the din of presidential politics, the cries of rage from the torn inner cities, and the turmoil abroad. But it may mean as much to this country as all the other changes taking place around the world -- or even more...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Hugh Sidey's America: Revolution on the Farm | 6/29/1992 | See Source »

...that time the plowman and his instrument were rooted in the American myth, a symbol of hard work, virtue and abundance that fed and freed most other Americans for pursuits beyond the farm. Plows of mounting complexity and size were hooked behind teams of oxen and horses and then to crude steam engines. In 1894 Nebraskan Sterling Morton, U.S. Secretary of Agriculture, decreed that the great seal of the Department of Agriculture would no longer have a shock of wheat in the center; it would have a shock of corn -- and a plow...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Hugh Sidey's America: Revolution on the Farm | 6/29/1992 | See Source »

...social justice from her family. The Bourkes were Roman Catholic gentry in the prosperous town of Ballina in County Mayo; both parents were doctors. Mary's grandfather, a retired lawyer, took her under his wing, describing his old cases and telling her how the law should be an instrument for social change and the protection of individuals. "Often he'd be in the process of opening a new packet of books that he'd ordered by mail. His communication was short and pithy, and often I would do a lot of the talking...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Symbol Of The New Ireland: MARY ROBINSON | 6/29/1992 | See Source »

...cannot support the singling out of this particular instrument," said Mayor Kenneth E. Reeves '72, who fell just short of accusing the anti drum forces of "cultural arrogance...

Author: By Ira E. Stoll, CRIMSON STAFF WRITER | Title: City Council Debates Street Musician Drums | 6/27/1992 | See Source »

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