Word: instruments
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...already declared this move one of the most ridiculous fiscal decisions in history, since it slashes into one of the most productive economic inputs--human capital. Despite an entire book written on the subject by Nobel laureate Gary Becker and dozens of other economists' faith in education as an instrument of growth, the Republicans have not exempted student aid programs from the budget...
...guitar, the tortured satyr and his magic lute. And the women? They can scream in the audience or maybe sing backup. In childhood girls are no more encouraged to pick up a Les Paul Black Beauty than pilot an F-16. They are expected to play only one instrument: the voice...
...devil. First the Jews who spurned Christ, then the Romans who persecuted his followers, then other Christians who departed from the orthodoxies of the newly consolidating church -- each group in turn, she says, appears in early Christian texts not just as a philosophical contender but as Satan's instrument...
Haden had religion. He had the history, he had the soul, and as he listened to Jones' serene and supple piano, his eyes closed, his head went back and he started playing a bass line. Without his instrument. Scatting, scampering around the surprising progression of Jones' notes, raising a joyful noise...
...ISSUE OF DEPICTED EVIL IS CERTAINLY not as cut-and-dried as both sides of the argument make it out to be. Art reflects society, to be sure, and ours is a troubled society. But art is an imaginative instrument, and the imagination that fuels our actions can help us overcome society's troubles. What raises a product of entertainment to the level of a work of art is in part the strength of its treatment of human action, good and evil. Great art uses descriptive and prescriptive means to depict morality. Pure depiction in art has no force; pure...