Word: instrument
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...administration, Vance participated in high-level policy-making in the period when the United States was maximizing its involvement in Vietnam. Vance did not protest the war, he did not resign his post, and indeed by representing the U.S. at the Paris peace talks, he served as an active instrument of the Johnson war policy. These factors alone should disqualify him from holding the highest foreign policy office in the nation...
...will have a harder time than other men because to dominate doesn't interest you. You will always be trying to dominate yourself; the woman you love will only be an instrument for you to practice...
...world. Unable to bring himself to consent to the Act of Succession, which legitimates Henry's divorce from Catharine of Aragon, he seeks safety in silence, counting on the law to protect him. In the hands of men like Thomas Cromwell, however, the law is an instrument that can be bent, Nixon-like, to suit any ends, and More is condemned finally on the basis of suborned evidence. The quality that ensures his doom is for Bolt the very one which confirms his triumph: his unwillingness to let go of selfhood, to subordinate conscience to serpentine expeidiency...
...wunderkind. But he is up in the top ten trumpeters playing today. Laws is a rarity; a lead man on flute: Not in the Eric Dolphy bracket, Laws is nevertheless more than competant on the flute. He is very much into the jazz-rock scene despite his usually classical instrument. Tyner is still my favorite pianist. He has not surrendered to the electric piano (in fact, he even tried his hand on the harpsichord in one album) and has maintained a high standard of romanticism in jazz. His style is best when in quartet, but his larger orchestra numbers...
...very worthwhile and perhaps life-saving measure that also met defeat on Tuesday was the proposed law banning private ownership of handguns. While only a national ban on handguns will be truly effective in stopping the violence and death that handguns are certainly the instrument, and perhaps the cause of, this law would have been a major step in that direction...