Word: interpretative
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DIED. Gershom Scholem, 84, world's foremost authority on Jewish mysticism; in Jerusalem. A faculty member of Israel's Hebrew University, the Berlin-born Scholem made a respected discipline of the study of the Kabbalah, a system that uses metaphysics and mathematics to interpret Scripture...
...City Council decision not to fund the legal appeal of the Polednak judgement is inconsistent with past city practice. City departments interpret city ordinances and orders and establish regulations and administrative procedures to carry them out and enforce them...
Speaking during a recent interview with film critics in New York, Taps producer Stanley Jaffe insisted that his movie does not condemn military high schools in general. Instead, he said Taps questions "whether we really know what we are teaching our children and how they will interpret it." It's an interesting question, and one answer--which somehow manages to ooze out of this ill-conceived flick--is precisely the condemnation the producer intended to avoid...
...correct the under-representation of Blacks in the elite ranks of our society, in such nearly exclusively white cliques as the Harvard Law Review, we should adopt procedures that will alleviate this condition as quickly as possible. Then we may discard affirmative action and interpret the Constitution as a color-blind document...
...doing his job too well," charged Democratic Congressman Harold Washington of Illinois. Alluding to the body's lack of enforcement power, National Urban Coalition President M. Carl Holman said, "I don't see how you gain anything, even symbolically, doing something like this." Yet other black leaders interpret the firings as all too symbolic of the Administration's retreat on such civil rights issues as school integration, affirmative action and the 1965 Voting Rights Act, which Reagan has criticized as overly broad. "What the Administration is trying to do," says Althea Simmons, Washington lobbyist for the N.A.A.C.P...