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...ethnic groups as a huge symphony orchestra in which each instrument retains its own characteristics, makes its particular contribution and, together with the other instruments, creates a wonderful or a terrible sound. Surely, to achieve a good sound, a French horn does not become a violin, nor does a piccolo turn into a kettledrum; rather, each strives harder to play in harmony with the others...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Letters: Dec. 16, 1966 | 12/16/1966 | See Source »

...Strangers in the Night. That combination would be pretty good radio fare in St. Louis or Atlanta. But to foreign listeners from Asadabad to Zamboanga, accustomed for years to more somber programming, the Voice of America's swinging new broadcasting format sounds almost as far out as a piccolo solo by Lyndon Johnson...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Nation: Swinging Voice | 12/9/1966 | See Source »

...drained marsh to become a bustling center of steel processing, pharmaceuticals and cinema studios. The discovery of methane gas reserves has brought three major petroleum companies to Ferrandina. At Sicily's port of Augusta, the Esso refinery has attracted so many other industries that Sicilians call the region "piccolo Milano"-little Milan...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Italy: Changing the Face of a Land | 10/16/1964 | See Source »

...little old man laughed at the notion of a rank-and-file revolt. To James C. ("Little Caesar") Petrillo, 70, onetime autocratic overlord of 260,000 U.S. musicians, it seemed like a piccolo challenging a calliope. "Everything is tops," cried Petrillo...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Labor: Yesterday's Tune | 12/14/1962 | See Source »

Brass and Percussion (Morton Gould and his Symphonic Band; Victor). Marches by Sousa, Goldman, E. E. Bagley and Conductor Gould pit piccolo against bassoon, trumpet against drum, with the listener caught in between, as if trapped in a Fourth of July parade...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Music: Sound in the Round | 9/19/1960 | See Source »

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