Word: instrument
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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Ochs' chosen instrument in his quest for excellence was Carr Van Anda, the icily intellectual managing editor who once spotted a mathematical error in an Albert Einstein lecture that the Times was about to print. Einstein gratefully acknowledged the mistake. Van Anda also had an eye for circulation-building stunts, such as the Times's sponsorship of polar expeditions by Commodore Robert Peary and Roald Amundsen...
...identification of the U.S. with some thing more than just consumption is essential to our own wellbeing, to our own psychic stability and to the American role in the world. But we shouldn't be strident. Our policy should be more an affirmation than a blunt or sharp instrument of political warfare...
...woman, alleged that a Yale music instructor "repeatedly made sexual advances, including coerced sexual intercourse, that were not wanted and were protested" from 1973 until her graduation this spring. As a result, she claimed she "found it impossible to continue playing the flute and abandoned her study of the instrument, thus aborting her desired professional career." Another plaintiff, a 19-year-old junior, alleged she was subjected to repeated "sexual harassment" this spring every time she visited an English professor's office to discuss term papers. Anne Simon, a Yale Law School alumna who is representing the plaintiffs, estimates...
...wants the chance but, as Martin shows, cannot have it. A brief affair with a charming but faithless acquaintance ends badly-and produces most of the novel's few patches of uncertain writing. Hannah's lover "begins to play on her body like a musician on an instrument" - a cliche that strikes a discordant note no matter what the tune...
...million political posters bloomed along the narrow streets and broad thoroughfares of Madrid. For the first time ever, politicians of all stripes, including the long-outlawed Communists, made campaign appearances last week over the air waves of the state-run television network, which had been created as an instrument of the Franco dictatorship. Across the country, nearly 6,000 candidates, vying for 557 parliamentary seats in the June 15 national election, took to the hustings to test the political preferences of people who for almost two generations had been taught not to choose but to obey...