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Miller believes the study and interpretation of the scriptures is just one of the many aspects of the church and that no aspect is superior to another. "Certain people will be called to various aspects of the ministry as servants: some have the training to keep the church alive spiritually, some are organizers. The church should employ the intellectual as a technician. Professional Black theologians are now transmitting bourgeois values to perpetuate class divisions in the church," he says, adding hierarchies are not appropriate in a Christian church. Bowen concurs, "The church in not an institutional structure...
...YEARS after the first Popeye cartoon, director Robert Altman and cartoonist-author-screenwriter Jules Feiffer have adapted the sailor to another medium--that of the musical-comedy feature film--using real people instead of animated figures. When such heavies team up with a talent like manic Robin Williams to interpret a piece of American folklore, the result ought to transcend the original material. Instead, they produce a faithful if restrained reproduction of the cartoon version--and somewhat of a disappointment...
...culture: How does one conjure up the presence of something that is not really there, and, once that is done, how do we know the exact limits of image and reality? We only see the dog in the corner or the Vermeer on the wall by mentally reassembling and interpret ing the stupendous variety of light waves reflected from them, but these light waves are not a dog or a Vermeer. Can one make art by eliminating the middle term, and just having light...
Since the beginnings of science, every age has had its tradition of explainers, often scientists themselves, who clarified new and difficult ideas. In the 19th century, T.H. Huxley served as the spokesman of Darwinian evolution. Later such skilled popularizers as Arthur Eddington and Bertrand Russell helped interpret the startling new worlds of relativity and quantum mechanics...
Cohen said yesterday he plans to use his new post at the Minneapolis-based institute to research, interpret and preserve "the pioneering methods" of early computers...