Folkhemmet introduced a nationalised health service and a welfare state to Sweden for the first time, and instigated something of a cultural boom.
In the late 70s and early 80s, Rutan instigated something of a revolution in DIY flight by using composites.
He was out to provoke a reaction, by any means possible: as his art school friend Helen WallingtoldLloyd told me, "He wanted to instigate something and be an imp.
Not only did he instigate something that could credibly be called an artistic movement; as mobiliser, organiser and proselytiser, he was as important in the history of European modernism as Trotsky was in the history of Russian revolution.
"I've run into O'Reilly many times in public — at Yankee Stadium as recently as a month ago — and never have instigated, and never would dream of instigating, something like that," he wrote.
The au pairs, nannies, maids, chauffeurs and live-in companions who attend the initial meetings have no specific agenda aside from taking in some shows and expressing "solidarity," but by the end of the story these loyal servants will instigate a series of reversals that add up to something of a palace coup.
Though it was she who instigated the initial meeting with Snowden, her story has taken something of a back seat to that of Glenn Greenwald, who has become the undisputed public face of the Snowden saga.
And in doing so, the festival, which has become something of a bellwether since Gerard Mortier shook it up in the 1990s after decades of elegant sameness under the conductor Herbert von Karajan, seems to have caught a wave of spirituality that is surging through the world of classical music (or, given the years of advance planning involved, helped instigate it).
Often the key to instigating the possibility of a relationship is in confidence.
