Word: interpretational
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Poet Judith Thurman, 36, labored to form her first effort at biography, the scrupulous and elegant Isak Dinesen: The Life of a Storyteller, along accepted Freudian lines. The author, so goes the convention, must interpret her subject psychologically for the reader. Thurman balked at the role of therapist. "Psychoanalyzing is absolutely useless," she recalls. "I was treating Dinesen as a case. I dropped that." Now she views her work as a love affair. "First it was the ecstasy, then total disillusionment, and finally came a deeper understanding and acceptance of the person." As sales and critiques have shown, the result...
...thumb at the audience. It is not that he refuses to communicate. The themes--madness and sanity, meaning versus nihilism--present themselves at every turn. It's just that their hammering symbolism and anti-realism become tedious after a while. The director, it seems, is almost coercing one to interpret first, watch later. But unless one is prepared to keep a running tally of symbols, the piece is destined--indeed, determined--to remain little more than an enginia wrapped in a metaphor...
...children have access to a free, adequate education. All 50 states have compulsory attendance laws, and ten of them require their private schools to use state-certified teachers. Catholic, Lutheran and Jewish schools for years have accommodated state requirements. But the Protestant fundamentalists who run the new Christian schools interpret both the Bible and their mission more rigidly. The Rev. Gerald Somero, 42, minister of the Sheridan Road Baptist Church, believes that by complying with licensing requirements "we are saying to the state 'you have a right to choose whom God has called to the ministry of teaching...
Kistiakowsky: Officially it is to insure the security of this nation. How you interpret it is your own business...It's complex...Some of them really see it in that noble.spirit. Other, and this is very common, see the development of some particular weapon as a new generation of missiles which will serve to advance their careers. As the project goes, because it's successful, the management becomes more important in the Pentagon. The top man gets promoted from colonel to general...
...Leverett production interpreted An Enemy of the People lightly, and seasoned the play with a cast of stereotypes, a forceful satirical piece could have been effected. Similarly, a serious interpretation, though ambitious, considering the play's outdated political theories and melodramatic tendencies, could have provided an effective dramatization. The cast, however, chooses simply to not interpret the play, instead incorporating stereotypes, political theory and melodrama indiscriminately, thereby presenting a chaotic version of Ibsen's vision...