Word: interpretative
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...judges being highhanded. The new law has been invoked by busing foes to block orders that courts have determined are constitutionally required. Attorney James M. Nabrit of the N.A.A.C.P. Legal Defense Fund observes that "it's conventional for a judge faced with a statute of doubtful constitutionality to interpret it in a way that avoids the problem. And that's what has been happening here...
...interpret the law liberally, believing that since teen-age sex is a fact, it ought at least to be protected sex. In any court test, they believe, the trend toward recognizing the civil rights of minors would prevail...
General MacArthur's argument that Olympic results reflect a nation's achievement outside of athletics is highly debatable at best. Some measure of chauvinism is understandable, but to interpret physical feats as evidence of sociological or ideological superiority is as absurd as trying to settle a United Nations debate with a foot race up First Avenue. And the tactic can backfire. At Berlin, Hitler had to sit and squirm as an American black-the legendary Jesse Owens-clearly outshone Germany's Nordic "supermen" to win gold medals in four events. Still, rampant nationalism continues to mock...
...cards are another favorite. The standard tarot deck has 78 cards, 56 of the "minor arcana," similar to and forerunners of modern playing cards, and 22 "major arcana" cards depicting such mystical symbols as The Devil, The Fool, The Lovers and The Hanged Man, each of which has many interpretations. The tarots can be laid out in several ways to tell fortunes and interpret character; one method sets them in the form of a cross, another in an outline of a "tree of life...
...course set last week. And in supporting the shift in favor of prosecutors, the Nixon court has served notice that despite conservatives' arguments that judges should confine themselves to "strict construction" of existing law, the new majority will feel as free as the Warren court did to re-interpret the law as it sees fit. Justice Douglas pointed out that irony in one of his dissents last week, when he said that the new majority of conservatives was undertaking a "radical departure from American traditions...