Word: instrument
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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Ralph: Au contraire, my ideological one. The smile is a famed instrument of social bonding, and females are simply better at it than males. Women's greater tendency to smile seems built in by evolution, probably as one tool to make them respond quicker and better to infants. Umpteen studies show that little girls are organized to respond better to people than little boys. They are more sensitive to the crying of other infants, and even in the first two or three days of life, they spend much more time smiling than newborn boys do. Doubtless this is an early...
...spent a lifetime attaining. Retirement is particularly agonizing for singers. Pianists and conductors have been known to perform into their 80s or even their 90s, but opera stars know that biology is destiny. Some time in their 50s or early 60s, the powerful, flexible and ultimately mysterious instrument that has been the source of their artistry frays, cracks and disappears...
...even do that). It is here to enshrine as well the principles that make us a good society. We all know there is disagreement on what is "good" in many areas, but to suggest that this translation should not be attempted is to restrict our Constitution to being an instrument of the barest self-preservation, one I am sure Mr. Gooen would not like if he looked at it closely enough...
...situation in Nicaragua is less hopeful, and the choice for Washington painfully limited. There is no serious prospect that, by themselves, the counterrevolutionaries, or contras, could overthrow the Sandinista regime, much as that would be in the American national interest. But they have proved important as an instrument to make the regime more malleable; there is little evidence to support the opposite view, that they solidified the regime. By cutting off aid to the contras, Congress irresponsibly deprived the U.S. of an important bargaining counter...
...into humane science. Consent suspends the Hippocratic injunction "First, do no harm." Moreover, it redeems not only the researcher but the researched. To be used by others is to be degraded; to give oneself to others is to be elevated. Indeed, consciously to make one's life the instrument of some higher purpose is the essence of the idea of service. If Barney Clark decides to dedicate his last days to the service of humanity, then-and only then-may we operate...