Word: organisms
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Every age has had its characteristic instruments: in the 17th century it was the voice, in the 18th the clavier and pipe organ, in the igth the piano and the symphony orchestra. The 20th century instrument is the record machine-a phonograph or a tape recorder...
...orchestras. They bowed their strings lightly, making bright, pure threads of sound. The brasses were not particularly powerful, but they sounded as mellow as if the instruments were made of soft copper. The horns-prone in any orchestra to skid off their notes-were as secure as a pipe organ...
Well, what would you expect from a Socialist University Organ? To bad Victor Marcantonia did not quit N.Y. and move to Cambridge! Well, there is Earl Browder for the editorial staff . . . Janie...
...trooped into the basement to splotch paint on paper at a very popular free Art Center. During the recent war, army chaplains trained upstairs. Now, the Lowell Institute's WGBH broadcasts from the basement and the top floor holds the offices of the Public Speaking Department. The great Baroque organ, whose pipes rise from the mezzanine like a cluster of stalagmites, is usually reserved for E. Power Biggs' Sunday morning broadcasts. However, others play on it during the week if they can convince the attendant that the organ for them is a major interest...
Even the most delicate religious effects are handled in this manner. The Virgin Mary comes to earth accompanied by great crashed of thunder, zaps of lightning, blasts of organ music, and finally springs up like the Cheshire cat. When it comes time for the actual miracle to take place, Warner's has the sky change colors as rapidly as a drugstore juke box, and the sun comes diving down toward the earth with appropriate sound effects. This "improvement" only makes the improbable seem impossible...