Word: interpret
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...other side of Ambassador Winant's task was to interpret to the British the complications of U.S. policy and procedure. This seems (although he does not say so) one of the most miserable jobs on earth. The British thought that each anti-Nazi speech by the President or a member of the Cabinet would be followed by a declaration of war. It also seems to have become increasingly difficult for Winant to speak of U.S. aid when he knew how small was the rate of U.S. production. Between the lines of Letter from Grosvenor Square...
...recognizable pictures were, if anything, harder to interpret. Siqueiros had painted his old friend Orozco sitting cross-legged in the heart of an electrical storm. "After all," he explained, "you can't take a man like Orozco, put him in a chair and paint a likeness. You have to paint him as he is." A plucked rooster, obscenely huge, lying dead and surrounded by columns of a Lilliputian army, symbolized the Death and Funeral of Cain. Our Image, a forceful study of a giant with its hands outstretched, sported a brachycephalic boulder for a head...
...four-man group of Michigan, Harvard, and Princeton scientists headed by Leo Goldberg of the University of Michigan will interpret data gathered by cameras and instruments in V-2 rockets...
...lending books to other libraries, made the public welcome. Last year 669,740 readers used the library's 20 reading rooms, and 764 scholars researched and wrote books in its cubicles. A "faculty" of 25 fellows and 22 consultants (among them: Poet Karl Shapiro) constantly survey and "interpret" the library collections, tell the Librarian what to get and what to throw away, help visiting scholars. The library's strong suits (after U.S. life & letters): China, Latin America, music, prints and photographs...
...corridors. Using the Medea legend as a starting "state of mind," she did a dance "of possessive and destroying love, a love which feeds upon itself and, when it is overthrown, is fulfilled only in revenge." Actually, the dance spoke for itself, and well: nobody needed program notes to interpret her hard, sure movements of jealous hatred...