Word: instrument
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...takes on Hobbes, Hume and others for asserting that the human mind fundamentally is a sensory organ, rather than an instrument that can also intellectualize. He dismasts Darwin for categorizing man as simply an animal with higher sensory perceptions, rather than an organism that, alone among living creations, can conceive such abstractions as right and wrong. Adler is equally hard on determinists like Marx on grounds that if all consequences are predetermined, then no man can be held responsible for his acts...
...will have about them a certain triumphal air for Americans. They will celebrate not merely the fact that the U.S. won but that they fought on the side that incontestably should have won. The outcome of World War II seemed to validate American power as an instrument of virtue in the world...
While support for guerrillas is a useful instrument of U.S. policy, it can rarely be decisive all by itself. Rather, covert action can serve to soften up a situation so that it will be more amenable to a negotiated settlement, or to direct military intervention. Sooner or later the secret agents and jungle warriors must give way to the diplomats and politicians--or to the generals...
...very experiments will take place. Jeffrey L. Goldberg '86, who will direct Sunday afternoon's Musical Offering explains his role: "What I'm doing may not satisfy purists who aren't used to hearing Bach on synthesizer, harp, trombone, or sax, but Bach can stand and transcend particular musical instruments." He added, "As the Musical Offering was Bach's response to the newest instrument of his day--the piano--we're applying it to the newest instruments of ours...
Goldberg said that unlike the music of some of the romantic composers, Bach's music is so strong that one can almost play it on any instrument, and it will stand...