Word: instruments
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Reason is not itself the source of truth, Henry believes, but rather an "instrument" given by God to discover the truth that God has communicated. Without reason, man "could never intelligibly discriminate God from the not-God, right from wrong, truth from untruth." Unlike many Evangelicals, Henry therefore insists that the Bible must be open to the tests of logical consistency and coherence...
...Korean Traders Association that gave Harvard $1 million for East Asian Studies is an instrument of the dictatorship, with close contacts with the Korean CIA. It is said that this money is acceptable because no strings are attached to it. The KTA did voice a concern that adverse criticism of South Korea not result from the gift. Clearly the Korean government is confident that no further strings are needed...
...this kind of idealism that worries many. Example: Richard Burt of London's International Institute for Strategic Studies warns that "the very high hopes of Carter's Administration are likely to be dashed" once he understands how highly Soviet leaders regard raw military power as an instrument of international relations. "The Kennedy people got disillusioned, then they got angry, and finally they overreacted," notes Burt, referring to the deterioration of U.S.-Soviet relations that culminated in the 1962 Cuban missile crisis...
...twist in the continuing campaign against Madame Mao. Three of the Chairman's physicians charged that when the ailing Mao was sleeping in his sickroom, Chiang Ch'ing would yell at him, brandishing documents under his nose. Then she made her first attempt with an improbable blunt instrument. This was a high-wattage lamp that she cunningly placed on Mao's bedside table. Though "in dread of heat," he survived. Then Chiang Ch'ing, her Maocidal mania unabated, burst last September into her husband's sickroom. Taking advantage of the chief doctor's absence...
Open Letters. Richard Nixon's handwriting is just terrible, and so was J.F.K.'s. The penmanship of most Americans is not much better. According to the Writing Instrument Manufacturers Association, many thousands of federal tax returns are held up each year because the IRS cannot make out the pigeon-track figures on the tax forms. Illegible handwriting, claims W.I.M.A., is responsible for annual U.S. business losses of more than $100 million in garbled records, billing mistakes and unreadable bookkeeping entries. W.I.M.A., whose members make pens, pencils and felt-tipped markers, has launched a campaign to battle the epidemic...