Word: instrumentalized
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...book's best chapter could stand alone in any anthology of humor. Back in the '40s, the untried Herriot attempts to test a bull for fertility. His instrument: a vulcanized rubber tube filled with warm water. The bull, eying a potential mate near by, is in no mood for experiments and furiously charges the young vet: "I met him with a backhanded slash. The elastic came off and the water fountained in the bull's eyes ... I have often wondered since that day if I am the only veterinary surgeon to have used an artificial vagina...
...bebop, and let him play his songs Ow and Groovin' High. The campus visit briefly unsettled Gillespie. Afterward the jazzman recalled with a chuckle: "I looked at my program and read, 'Commencement address: Dizzy Gillespie.' I was terrified. Everybody knows a jazz trumpeter's instrument doesn 't wake up until 10 at night." In short, as usual, through the gloom there came notes of hope, idealism and humor as well. A commencement sampler...
...Boston Lyric Opera joined forces on a production that was as faithful to both the spirit and the notation of Monteverdi's score as one is likely to find. The opera was the high point of the Boston Early Music Festival and Exhibition, which brought musicologists, performers and instrument makers to the city for a week-long conference on the proper performance of medieval, Renaissance and Baroque music. Abandoned now is the practice of booming Bach out of a modern grand piano; forsworn, too, is the "sewing machine" school of Baroque interpretation, which made 500 pieces by one composer...
...only fix in place for the S and Ls is an innovative money-market instrument called a repurchase agreement. This allows S and Ls to pay rates comparable to those of money-market funds for small amounts, perhaps as low as $1,000, for up to a maximum of 89 days. That could help the S and Ls' competitiveness in seeking funds, but there is a catch. The accounts, like the money-market funds, would not be insured by the Government...
Glazer, author of the widely cited Affirmative Discrimination, agrees. "The Instrument of national social policy designed ostensibly to prevent discrimination inevitably went beyond that to positive efforts on behalf of those presumptively discriminated against," he writes in Ethnicity, which he co-ediyed with Sen. Daniel P. Moynthan (D-N.Y), a former Government professor...