Word: instrument
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What I did get was some of the finer music to be heard in Boston in awhile. Conductor Craig Smith prefers a richer, warmer Handel than my original-instrument tuned ears are accustomed to, but the quality was impeccable. Had Sellars and Smith done a little judicious paring on the score, my ears would have left totally elated instead of mildly exhausted...
Near Eastern Languages and Civilizations offers nine classes in Akkadian. The only Akkadian I have ever heard of is the instrument played at Italian weddings. The Turkic department offers two courses in Elementary Uzbek, and a course in both Old or Modern Uighur. I don't know what Uzbek is, and I can't even pronounce Uighur...
...grant will provide Harvard's research labs with two sophisticated instruments, a Rutherford-Bach. scattering instrument and an X-rayphoto-electron spectrometer. An Auger spectrometerand a secondary ion mass spectrometer, twoinstruments which are particularly useful toelectronics research, will...
...hands are far from delicate, but the impression of them on the helm is something like that. "Feels more like a bull fiddle today than a violin," Conner muses to himself, and the wheel is some kind of concert instrument clearly. In a continuous search where one-tenth of a knot is considered a quantum find, he is thought to be worth a full knot himself. Puffs of wind can be calibrated on his shoulder blades. Tiny fractions of speed are visible to him on the sails. Like a fastidious haberdasher, he is constantly pinching and reshaping the fabric...
...remains to be seen, however, whether the new programs will have much appeal for a crime-wary public and law-enforcement establishment. That prison time can be harrowing is to some minds its first merit. The living-room sofa is by comparison a painless instrument of remorse. "Until the alternatives are seen by the public as tough, there won't be support for them," says Thomas Reppetto of the Citizens Crime Commission in New York City. The problem is even plainer when the offenders are well heeled. Will justice be served if crooked stock traders are confined to their penthouses...