Word: steele
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Like stern proconsuls* of Imperial Rome, four Italian Colonial Governors make almost 2,000,000 natives smart with commands backed by steel. Two† of the four colonies have no native parliaments; and the other two** seemed about to lose theirs last week. At Rome the doom of every sort of native autonomy in Italian Colonies was sealed when Colonial Minister Luigi Federzoni published, last week, the text of a law approved for enactment by Dictator Benito Mussolini...
...that little, vile, ill-favored capital. But last week the bullet was Italian, the blood Albanian. That was news. The shadowy man who fired the shot made good his escape-perhaps he was not Italian after all-but soon Albanians and Italians were arguing in the streets with shiny steel. Five men lay dead at last, according to report. Two dead were Italian, and all the living knew that Italy might intervene under her new treaty with Albania (TIME, Dec. 13) for vengeance. Through the crooked, cobbled, time-stained streets Fear stalked last week, with the numbing rumor that...
George Antheil believes himself on the track of such a creation. His new instrument is the percussion symphony, employing ten pianos, one mechanical piano, xylophones, airplane propeller, wind machines, electric machines, bells- but no strings, brasses, woodwinds or reeds. He wants to express America, Africa, steel. While his Slavic blue eyes grow round with vision, he will assure the interviewer that to him a good Ford engine seems more beautiful than a mediocre painting...
...best known symphony, "Ballet Mécanique," nearly precipitated a riot in Paris. The weird whirr of wood, rubber, steel was radical enough to set the audience howling with conflicting passions of admiration and disgust. But, in addition, the propeller was placed facing them. When it started its great whirling, thereby affording the symphony a sustaining tone analogous to the bass drum, the umbrellas in the front rows, together with hats, skirts, wigs of the favorably as well as the unfavorably disposed, were whisked out of repose into strange embarrassments. The "Trenton Tough" thereupon faced his sustaining tone...
...enormous pistons thumping, dynamos roaring, cogwheels whirring, it was agreed that nothing so immense, grand, complete had ever been comprehended by the eye. For a while it seemed as if one would behold an entire civilization revealed from an Olympian vantage point, would glimpse its heart palpitating beneath steel ribs. Then the scenario took hold, reduced the magnificent spectacle to the condition of a god smothered with a dishrag...