Word: instrumentality
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...Haitian parents Marie and Dany Nemorin. Poetry is a big part of who I am. The poets who interest me the most are Emily Dickinson, Maya Angelou, Langston Hughes and Robert Frost. I used to wonder how poetry captivated me, but then I realized that music minus instrument = poetry. Most of the poems I wrote at the beginning of my 7th-grade year were about my crushes, but as the school year ended I started to write about how I thought of this world. Do I want to be a poet? I don't know if I want to take...
...easy to become a conductor. There are formal academic programs, but you can really learn to conduct only by doing it, and to do it you need an orchestra. "You have no instrument to practice," Alsop told TIME. "You can't get any experience." In her 20s Alsop worked as a freelance violinist in New York City, but after hours she would bribe her musician friends with pizza to let her lead them through Mozart symphonies. When she couldn't get a regular conducting position, she founded her own ensemble, the Concordia Orchestra. Never let it be said that Alsop...
...weapons that incinerated those two unfortunate cities represented a technological innovation with fearsome consequences for the future of humanity. But the U.S. had already crossed a terrifying moral threshold when it accepted the targeting of civilians as a legitimate instrument of warfare. That was a deliberate decision, indeed, and it's where the moral argument should rightly focus...
Right from the start, the nuclear age was wrapped in a paradox. An awful weapon had saved lives; a terrible instrument of war had brought peace. The images from Hiroshima seared the consciousness of a generation, forever serving as an admonishing reminder of mankind's destructive capacities. "In an instant, without warning, the present had become the unthinkable future," TIME wrote one week after the dropping of the bomb. And yet the very memory of the bombings of Hiroshima and Nagasaki, of cities being reduced to rubble in an instant, provided an odd hope that such terror would never...
...most feared is the San Andreas, which slashes its way along the California coast for 750 miles. Many scientists believe that after decades of quietude, the pressure on sections of the San Andreas is reaching the point at which something will have to give. Researchers have been rushing to instrument the fault--"setting out traplines," as Ken Hudnut, a geophysicist with the U.S. Geological Survey (USGS), puts it--to catch the faintest movements and seismic mutterings...