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...three actors have chosen to interpret their parts as grimly as possible. Mark Bramhall is appropriately bitter and cynical as Giovanni, but his interpretation leaves out the third dimension of grotesque humor the character should have. Elise Sweet (Francesca) and Joel Martin (Paolo) perform competently; Miss Sweet especially brings fierce intensity to her role...
...discovery that in a certain kind of jazz nightclub he was the only one who seemed interested in the music led to a survey of musicians and audiences and a fascinating story on why jazz musicians often find their listeners a drag. In trying to report and interpret our times, we frequently find that these stories better reflect the quality of contemporary life than a mere catalogue of what, in old-fashioned terms, "happened" last week...
...unions, the Supreme Court last week found against General Motors and declared that agency shops are not illegal in all states. But in the other, the court ruled that a state court in Florida-where agency shops are not strictly prohibited by law-had the right to interpret the state's right-to-work law to mean that the agency shop is illegal. The Supreme Court thus said, in effect, that agency shops are legal only in states that do not object to them-which at present means only Indiana among right-to-work states...
Harvard College is presently designed to inform our common sense, and give us the means by which we can render large masses of complex information comprehensible to ourselves and our community. Our Calvinist forbears, the intended ministers, were expected to interpret for their congregations a God whose universe was governed by established laws; the world the present Harvard undergraduate shall enter is somewhat more complicated. Consequently our common sense--the basis on which we judge things--takes a good deal of time to develop...
...THEOLOGY AND JOURNALISM: Earth recalls that 40 years ago he advised young theologians to "take your Bible and take your newspaper, and read both. But interpret newspapers from your Bible." Newspapers, he says, are so important that "I always pray for the sick, the poor, journalists, authorities of the state and the church-in that order. Journalists form public opinion. They hold terribly important positions. Nevertheless, a theologian should never be formed by the world around him-either East or West. He should make it his vocation to show both East and West that they can live without a clash...