Word: interpretated
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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Because he has to speak out of myth, the mythologist can never interpret his object fully. Barthes himself speaks of a similar danger--that the mythologist may lose sight of the real object under all the interpretation. He may forget that the Citroen "is a technologically defined object: it is capable of a certain speed, it meets the wind in a certain way, etc." The total object, the sum of all its meanings, remains finally unreachable...
...their literacy certificates, Mobral students must be able to read and write their addresses, calculate food prices and count change, write simple letters in the first person and read and interpret newspapers...
That is, perhaps the only way to interpret the emblems of democracy. Despite the radical and rightist cant, the American symbols contain no occult powers. Saluting them or reviling them can do nothing to alter social policy. Placing a decal on a car window does not grant the bearer a moral superiority. Spitting on the flag is about as effective a challenge to the Establishment as sticking pins in a wax effigy of the Pentagon. The externals of America are, at best, only expressions of a fragile ideal. The land of the free and the home of the brave...
...Olympics for Ramparts, he "tried to explain why blacks were angry and exploited as athletes." He briefly taught a course at the University of California called "Intercollegiate Athletics and Higher Education: A Socio-Psychologcal Evaluation" and founded the Institute for the Study of Sport and Society to "help interpret what's going on in sport and make it what it can and should be." Scott's two books, A thletics for Athletes and The Athletic Revolution, are so critical of racist, brutalizing, win-at-any-cost practices in college athletics that Spiro Agnew once rebuked...
...dark and gloomy film, The Clown's Evening presents life as a brutal humiliation--a life difficult to endure which, in the final analysis, resignation and companionship may make tolerable. Many people interpret the film as absolute pessimism, probably because it eschews the idyllic presentation of Bergman's earlier films such as Summer Interlude and Summer with Monika. But the romance in those films eventually breaks down--totally. The more concentrated Clown's Evening begins after the break-down, discrediting illusions that we never see on the screen...