Word: interpretative
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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Margaret Y. Han, in her piece entitled "Hello, Mrs. Robinson," seems to interpret the recent media emphasis on the desirability of the older woman as something of a step forward for women: a recognition that a woman past the age of 35 should not be devalued as a possible romantic partner simply because of age. The media's shift from an emphasis on only the very young woman as sexually exciting is noteworthy, but does it really signal or promote a change in attitudes toward women? Joan Collins, Vicki LaMotta, and other mentioned are all "older" women who look like...
...seems that the Crimson came, to the Union with the incorrect notion that any house sending representatives to greet freshmen did so to provide shoulders for them to cry on. This delusion clouded your reporter's ability to accurately interpret our motives. He only succeeded in perpetuation a misguided image of Mather House. Michael R. Epstein '85 Jonathan A. Lesserson '85 Steven A. Nussbaum...
...study does not attempt to interpret the justifications of individual regimes; instead. Al asserts "that the classical apology for torture (that the authorities are obliged to defeat terrorists or insurgents) does not fit the facts. [It] ignores the fact that the majority of torture victims...have no security information...
...Christ lays out the procedure for dealing with a wrongdoer. The final step: "If he refuses to listen to them, tell it to the church; and if he refuses to listen even to the church, let him be to you as a Gentile and a tax collector." The churches interpret this as requiring the kind of treatment that was meted out to Guinn...
...Marxist foundation. Cardinal Ratzinger goes further, identifying liberation theology as a serious doctrinal error. Ratzinger concedes that the movement might never have arisen if the church had been more aggressive in attacking oppression. However, he firmly rejects the approach of liberation theologians who, he says, use Marxism to interpret the Bible in their own way and who believe they can adopt Marxism's techniques without its atheism. He accuses such writer-priests as Gustavo Gutierrez of Peru and Jon Sobrino of El Salvador of transforming spiritual concepts into political ones...