Word: instrumentalized
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...before he was brought in for a year as a reform superintendent in 1967: "Discipline was routinely enforced by flogging, beating with clubs, inserting of needles under fingernails, crushing of testicles with pliers, and the last word in torture devices: the 'Tucker telephone,' an instrument used to send an electric current through genitals." In Jail: The Ultimate Ghetto, Ronald Goldfarb records so many atrocities of prison life that the reader is scarcely surprised to learn that in the District of Columbia jail a young white antiwar protester of the 1960s was raped dozens of times by blacks...
...alliance. The Kremlin warned West Europeans not to bow to U.S. pressure in such matters as modernizing NATO's tactical nuclear arsenal and boycotting this summer's Moscow Olympic Games. In Paris, Soviet Ambassador Stepan Chervonenko stated that unless the allies resist, they would be turned into "an instrument for America's global policy" and would allow the U.S. to "attain strategic objectives on the backs of others." When Bonn indicated that it would probably follow the U.S. lead and boycott the Olympics, the Soviet Ambassador to West Germany warned that such a decision would have "political consequences...
...Pollini's personal life remains private, fenced off behind the rows of neutral facts in program notes. He was the only child of a prominent modernist architect in Milan. He began playing the piano at five and immediately felt "a special connection" with the instrument. At eleven, he gave his first public performance. Today, in between the 60 or so concerts he plays a year, he lives in Milan with his wife and baby...
...trios, there is none better. All three members perform well enough to be soloists. But even the greatest virtuosos who join together as a trio can remain just that: a trio. The Beaux Arts players' real virtuosity lies in their ability to become, as Greenhouse puts it, "one instrument...
...crisis, Met-Ed was severely criticized by local and state officials for not forthrightly admitting the scope of the problem. A series of investigations of what went wrong in Unit 2 has shaken confidence even more. A special presidential commission found that during the accident plant personnel misinterpreted their instrument readings, overrode automatic safety systems and shut off the reactor's emergency core-cooling system too early. A report sponsored by the Nuclear Regulatory Commission delivered another blow by suggesting that Unit 2 came closer to melting down than anyone-even the Met-Ed officials in charge...