Word: instrumentality
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...each song stopped ringing. Though songs from “Distortion,” the band’s newest album, are covered in layers of shoegaze distortion, feedback, and electronic effects, the live performance was entirely acoustic, consisting of piano, guitar, cello, and bouzouki (an eight-stringed instrument similar to a mandolin). Adapting the new songs to this format consisted mostly of removing drums and guitars to expose the melodies underneath. Merritt’s latest lyrics emerged from the layers of guitar noise to reveal a sincerity and intimacy unheard since “69 Love Songs...
...been lacking, the overall quality of education under Castro suffered due to its emphasis on indoctrination. A student is not given the opportunity to explore varied educational interests. Students are taught Marx, but not Smith; Lenin, but not Locke; Guevara, but not Jefferson. Education in Cuba is merely another instrument for the government to intrude into everyday life, manage opinions, and disarm the intellectual from opposing the government...
...Woman of the Year, Charlize Theron, whose appearance was particularly boisterous. As the press conference ended, Walken posed with his Pudding pot. Asked about his experience at Harvard, the actor responded that he loved the College and didn’t think it was lacking in a certain musical instrument. “Harvard has all the cowbell that it needs,” he said. —Staff writer Cora K. Currier can be reached at ccurrier@fas.harvard.edu...
...last week when she announced a shake-up of her Cabinet. Ousted from his post as Foreign Secretary was Francis Pym, who had differed with Thatcher on a number of issues. His replacement is Sir Geoffrey Howe, who as Thatcher's Chancellor of the Exchequer proved himself a trusted instrument of her economic policies. Howe's successor at Treasury is Nigel Lawson, formerly Secretary of Energy and another loyal Thatcherite. Deputy Prime Minister and Home Secretary William Whitelaw, whom Thatcher considered too moderate, has been elevated to the House of Lords. His Home Office job will be filled by Leon...
...relevant and readable today as it was on its release 31 years ago. Applicable to a modern readership, it has not been bogged down by historical particulars. And yet the ghosts of Auschwitz do haunt the novella through the obsession of Martens’ colleague with a torture instrument named the “Boger swing.” The inventor of this device, William Boger, was, in fact, an infamous Auschwitz guard known for instances of sadism. Like a secret mentioned in the first act of a tragedy, the Boger swing sits on the desk waiting patiently...