Word: instrumental
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...majority . . . It is the majority which does the damage under our American form of government. It passes legislation. It is the majority that should be restrained . . . I now am of the opinion that cloture, in any form, is an evil, a termite gnawing at our very vitals, an instrument of which we would be well...
...Okeh. When he played Chicago, such youngsters as Bix Beiderbecke, Benny Goodman, Gene Krupa and Eddie Condon, who were to help create the "Chicago school" of jazz, sat and listened worshipfully. All of them now make their bow to Louis. Says Drummer Krupa: "No band musician today on any instrument, jazz, sweet, or bebop, can get through 32 bars without musically admitting his debt to Armstrong. Louis did it all, and he did it first...
Twice Acheson repeated his theme: "The interest of the U.S. and of all the hundreds of millions of people throughout the world in peace is so fundamental that the matter of peace cannot be tampered with and cannot be used as an instrument in any international political maneuver. It will not be so used by the U.S." He added pointedly: "If I on my part were seeking to give assurance of seriousness of purpose, I would choose some other channel than the channel of a press interview...
Although Stravinsky wrote his Capriccio for Piano and Orchestra as a vehicle for solo appearances, the role of the piano is secondary. Much of its part is percussive, in keeping with a general trend of contemporary composers, but not with the real idiom of the instrument. Soulima Stravinsky appeared to handle the part in real razzle-dazzle fashion, although his playing was almost inaudible from my seat...
Last week the Air Force announced that it has developed and tested two rockets that are really guided. One, the NATIV (North American Test Instrument Vehicle), is a small contraption 13 feet long, designed for high-speed aerodynamic studies. The other, the 774, looks like a formidable weapon (see cut). It is 32 feet long (the V-2 was 45 feet long), and, says the Air Force, "is potentially capable of attaining altitudes of more than 100 miles...