Word: instrumentality
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...Street (Coleman Hawkins Quintet; Riverside). The storied 1920s blues singer was around 70 when she came out of retirement to record this album last spring-and her dragging tempo and uncertainty of pitch give her away. But her voice-more nasal and corrugated than ever-is still an impressive instrument in Fogyism and Wild Women Don't Have the Blues, as Ida sells her message with a conviction that singers a third her age cannot muster...
Working with electronic engineers, the Buffalo doctors devised a transistorized pacemaker, driven by a tiny, long-life mercury battery, cast in epoxy resin and encased in a double coating of silicone rubber. The instrument uses the timing effect of electrical surges in a closed circuit to measure off 60 beats a minute. To carry the impulses to the heart, Dr. Chardack uses two springs of platinum-iridium alloy, attached to the heart muscle...
...People in some other country will learn something about you or a group of Americans," Ginsburg continued, "but you are not going abroad to be a propaganda instrument or a junior agent of the C.I.A...
Ratemeter is an instrument similar to a dosimeter, except that it indicates the rate at which the radiation is being absorbed by a person...
THIS crude grey parapet is no proper wall at all. It is an unsymmetrical thing, uncouth and raw, like a wound made by a jagged instrument. In many places it already is crumbling, but the Communists keep building it up, making it even higher. At first you wonder why it is so revolting to behold. Then you realize that the Wall was meant to be an insult to human dignity. As such it is a masterpiece; its execution is perfect because it is being wrought by artisans who consciously hate...