Word: instrumentality
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...Brown. Once joining Russell in New York at the renowned Savoy Ballroom, Haynes’ opportunities multiplied, allowing him to collaborate with everyone from Miles Davis, Thelonious Monk, and John Coltrane to Stan Getz and Chick Corea. “[Coltrane] was one of the first artists playing an instrument to come to a climax, bring it down, and bring it right back up again,” Haynes recalls of his time playing with Coltrane just a few years after the release of “Giant Steps.” Another particularly special partnership for Haynes was with...
James Watson The chancellor emeritus of Cold Spring Harbor Lab was one of TIME's People of the Century Thomas Jefferson said, "The press is the best instrument for enlightening the mind of man." When reading a column by Frank Rich, we suspect that Jefferson was right. With peerless intellectual clarity and wit, Rich holds our leaders to a higher standard than the one at which they too often settle...
Richard Branson The media mogul and entrepreneur is the CEO of Virgin Group and a past TIME 100 honoree James Lovelock developed an instrument that helped decipher the role of chlorofluorocarbons in the depletion of the ozone layer. His Gaia theory of how our planet works has real applicability in the battle for our survival in a rapidly changing climate...
...abortion. The confusion also raised questions about whether the Lisbon Treaty was too complicated and technical to be put to a referendum. But Ganley, who will run himself in Ireland's northwest constituency, rejects such claims. "Democracy is not supposed to be perfect," he says. "It's a blunt instrument. It's not expected to be efficient...
...etymological examination further exposes meat as a decidedly non-gender-neutral term. According to the Oxford English Dictionary, "meat," in its slang usage, can refer to “the human body (esp. a woman’s body) regarded as an instrument of sexual pleasure,” as well as both female and male genitalia. The less academic, but no less authoritative Urban Dictionary defines meat as both sexual intercourse (with the charming example “I’d like to meet Jessica Alba and then meat her”) and as a derogatory term...