Word: instrumentality
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...state of Israel is established! The meeting is ended." At midnight, British rule over Palestine lapsed; 11 minutes later White House spokesman Charlie Ross announced U.S. recognition. "God put you in your mother's womb," the Chief Rabbi of Israel later told Truman, "so you would be the instrument to bring the rebirth of Israel." With Truman's decision, the hopes of the Jewish people were realized, but so too were Marshall's fears. Arab opponents of the new nation immediately declared war, prompting a bloody struggle over Israel's existence that would rage into the next century. --By Romesh...
...beautiful and painful, yet his singing bears no sign of the overwrought pretentiousness that often befalls melancholia in less skillful hands. And even though Acher’s vocals lack much dynamic or emotive range, their soothing tone actually makes for the album’s most effective, mesmerizing instrument...
Twelve years ago, my entrance into the world of music seemed innocent enough. Mr. Erickson, the Willy Wonka-esque town music teacher, came to my elementary school to present the myriad of possible musical instruments to play to an audience of rapt third graders. “Play an instrument because you like the way it sounds, not because your grandma has a violin in the attic,” he told us, and, since already I loved the wolf’s theme in Prokofiev’s “Peter and the Wolf...
...don’t know what a real party is like, just as the river Charles is as clean as your meaningful college career as a go getter across the great 50. To those whom have not seen you I am one who believes that you play a brass instrument and belittle bullies Florida State would not have your delicate ass any how! This come [sic] from a guy who went to Phillips Exeter and probably sank your fat mom, if not your dike-ass sister!!! Variety is the spice of life not a $200 plane ticket and a couple...
...Cast Project was based both on Sellars’ philosophy of art as an instrument of democracy, and the work of the Los Angeles Poverty Department, a theater that featured monologues by homeless people...