Word: interpretative
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...bulldozing the house at 21 Sacramento Street Harvard destroyed, not only a building and a garden, but part of the community goodwill the University claims it wishes to build. Harvard states this was not meant as retaliation, but how else can the Agassiz Community interpret the timing, the failure to notify the community in advance, and the brutal nature of the razing which left as an eyesore what was the most attractive garden in the area. The blackberry bushes, the raspberry bushes, the grape vines, the flowering vines, the pear tree--all have been flattened in an apparent scorched earth...
...Lippmann had not gone over to the Republicans. He was simply displaying once again his distrust of any grand scheme whose success depended on measures he considered oppressive. "The Good Society has no architectural design," he wrote in 1937. "There are no blueprints." Lippmann's refusal to interpret events according to doctrine struck some critics as vacillation. In fact, Lippmann shifted far less than did the political spectrum against which his positions were measured...
...people, including students, talked about China's needs and the importance of putting them ahead of personal preferences. For instance, there was an English student at Peking University--like all the English students she expects to be an interpreter or a schoolteacher--who said that though some of her friends who like children hope to teach, she herself would rather interpret, "but the country's needs should come first." Then a friend of hers explained how she, as a would-be chemist, might have been sent to language school instead: "So I would learn to speak beautiful English, and study...
...Black people for the past five centuries have been struggling to know, interpret and transmit their heritage to themselves and others. This attempt has been frustrated by a sort of cultural imperialism of the Western societies," Guinier added...
...three-year A.B. However, discussion is bound not to be too serious while three-fourths of all Advanced Standing students elect to stay a fourth year. The number of students graduating after three years has risen each year for the past three years, but this fact is difficult to interpret. David Harnett, director of Advanced Standing, attributes the rise to termination of the draft; the increase could also be due to the desire of students to reduce the cost of schooling, or to a desire to begin professional training as soon as possible. At any rate, the factors that possibly...