Word: instrumentalized
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...runs--must inevitably share in the general collapse. It follows that any struggle against the abuse of language is a sentimental archaism, like preferring candles to electric light or hansom cabs to aeroplanes. Underneath this lies the half-conscious belief that language is a natural growth and not an instrument we shape for our own purposes...
...rather than the adventuresome explorer, it is the meticulous instrument-maker who serves as Boorstin's model. His narrative is precise, detailed, and accurate, with only a few minor errors. This is only fitting, indeed, the theme of The Discoverers is "the conquest of common sense" by precise and accurate measurement...
...anticipate and deter a terrorist attack before it can be carried out. In addition, the U.S. and the rest of the civilized world must try to make it clear to the exporters of terrorism-most conspicuously, Iran, Syria, Libya and North Korea-that murder is not a legitimate instrument of national policy. One way to do this would be to cut off all diplomatic and commercial contacts with the offending countries...
...artificial flavors and plastic hearts) has come up with a substitute: ad hoc centrism. The mechanism is government-by-commission, and unlike the "commission on the future" of years past, today's commission is not meaningless, temporary employment for eminent and idle statesmen. It is an essential political instrument for improvising a center. And it is the political story...
...blankets, into lightless black bags, to change their photographic plates. When a photographer named Captain Payer was taking pictures in Egypt for the Viceroy in 1863, the fellahin thought that his camera was a Pandora's box, and-that his black bellows contained cholera; they smashed the whole instrument. But the rewards of pioneering photographic work could be magic indeed. Masters of Early Travel Photography (Vendome; 352 pages; $50) is a handsome, sepia-tinted sampler of 177 early photographs-small curios and enormous vistas, tattooed men and mountain ranges-taken by adventurers in Egypt, Japan, Brazil, India, China...