Word: instrumentalized
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...test-makers and takers have agreed on one thing in all this, it's that the SAT is a limited instrument. To critics, scores measure superficial skills and draw arbitrary distinctions; to advocates, scores remain a symptom, not a cause, of education and society's ills. The more serious question has always been who should take the responsibility for trying to improve the sorry state of educational affairs symbolized by the national medians that dropped and dropped...
...have set up a ridiculous choice: "Federal control with lots of money, or local control with no money." But for public education today, an additional concern is the Department of Education itself. Established to advance the federal role in education, under Secretary Bell it seems to be becoming an instrument to reverse that role...
...into telephone poles. Now the women look and go crazy. 'Look at those legs!' they shout. 'Way to go!' " It is the way those aristocrats of physical culture, the modern and ballet dancers, have always gone. Says Impresario Paul Taylor: "The dancer's body is superb as a functioning instrument to accomplish physical feats." Deb bie Allen, who plays a dance teacher and serves as choreographer on the NBC-TV series Fame, sees dancing as "a precision art. Doing the things your body might not want to do keeps your mind alert and elevated." And, as Choreographer Patricia Birch (Grease...
Alas, the poor videodisc, so misunderstood, so maligned. Most people think it a single-purpose instrument, a movie machine. The misconception was fostered by the much ballyhooed introduction in 1981 of RCA's Selecta Vision, 15 years and $200 million in the making. Not a truly innovative technology, Selecta Vision is essentially a phonograph that uses a mechanical stylus to play prerecorded movies. Its costly debut obscured the second type of videodisc: the infinitely more versatile laser-vision disc, designed for the videodisc player introduced by Magnavox in 1978. Manufactured by Pioneer, Sony and the 3M Co., the laser...
...start of the 17th century, painting in France was not, on the whole, an instrument of state glory; it tended to be seen condescendingly as a manual business, a craft. The story of French art in this period is very largely that of painting's struggle to be seen on a level with literature or philosophy. This entailed confronting the source of all great artistic prototypes, Rome, which supplied models both antique and modern. The chief modern one was Caravaggio, who had died on a malarial Mediterranean beach at the start of the 17th century and left behind...