Word: technician
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...Soviet and East European regimes, he called for transforming Spain into a democracy without "dictatorial methods, recognizing political and ideological pluralism and with full respect paid to the result of general elections." The publication of Carrillo's speech in the East German party newspaper prompted a local television technician to remark: "That's the best thing I've read in Neues Deutschland in years...
Scarlatti Romp. If contemporary jazz has a new cynosure, it is Pianist Keith Jarrett, 31. A virtuoso performer who was trained in the classics, Jarrett is a flawless, controlled technician who scales melodic altitudes that recall the late piano genius Art Tatum. Jarrett's great gift is improvisation, which he weaves effortlessly for as much as 25 minutes at a sitting. His textures are densely contrapuntal, his melodies sometimes Chopinesque. At one moment he can sound like a Latin band on the march, at another like Copland playing variations on Elliott Carter, at still another like Scarlatti in a rhythm...
Although many of the powerful uncommitted are political bosses and officeholders, a substantial number are mainly middle-class Americans with long records of hard-slogging service to their parties-ringing doorbells, running Xerox machines, driving voters to the polls on election days. They include an air-pollution technician from Virginia, a haberdasher from Kansas, a housewife from Oklahoma and a community antipoverty organizer from New York. Some Governors, big-city mayors and state chairmen head uncommitted groups, but their persuasive powers may be lost on the individual delegates; many intend to vote their own consciences...
Under a searing African sun last July, Eritrean rebels burst into a U.S. naval radio station near Asmara, Ethiopia, and seized Steven Campbell, 27, a civilian technician, and another American, James Harrell, 41. The kidnapers' apparent motives: extort ransom from the U.S. and end American aid to Ethiopia. They dragged both men across 100 miles of desert in twelve days to a tent outpost. There the guerrillas held them virtually incommunicado on a diet of rice and canned vegetables...
John L. Springs, a technician at Peter Bent Brigham Hospital, said "We're going to smash [Davis] for the lies he tells," leading the protestors to chant, "Davis, you liar, we'll set your ass on fire...