Word: interpretative
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...Harvard campus, I’ve long thought this selection an odd one. When I discovered that this gate and plaque were erected in honor of the 25th anniversary of women’s living in Harvard Yard, I was especially perplexed. It is possible, nowadays, to interpret Bradstreet’s words as a sign of her exhilaration—her heart rising in joy at the discovery of her new country—but in fact, her words signify the exact opposite response. Bradstreet wrote these words a few years prior to her death in an autobiographical letter...
...cannot copy nature in a servile way; I am forced to interpret nature and submit it to the spirit of the picture," wrote the French painter Henri Matisse in 1908, looking back on a decade in which he and his friends had revolutionized image making. Many of the results of that revolution can be seen at the Royal Academy in London, where 86 paintings and seven sculptures from the collection of Gabrielle and Werner Merzbacher are on show until mid-November. The Merzbachers, both German-born, moved from the U.S. in 1964 to Switzerland, where Werner, then 36, joined...
...Italy, the center-right government of Prime Minister Silvio Berlusconi is in a running feud with the Commission over how to interpret rules requiring budgetary discipline for countries in the euro zone. Those rules, outlined in the E.U.'s Stability and Growth Pact, are proving to be a major obstacle for the Italian government as it tries to implement campaign pledges for income and corporate tax relief...
...There is also a noir version. In the 1980s, allegations were raised in Parliament and in newspapers that Ambani was a master manipulator?that he received favors from politicians, cajoled officials to interpret the rules his way, brought down endless audits and inspections on his rivals, and reputedly had the power even to make or break governments. In 1985, leaders of opposition political parties signed a letter urging a thorough legislative probe into Reliance over "massive and ingenious schemes and methods adopted by the company in gross contempt of public policies and statutory laws...
...makes the game look easier, and for a public happy to interpret Ichiro's few, banal utterances ("Whether it's a good day or a bad day, I look back and find anyplace I can correct myself," he says. "I absorb it, digest it and come back the next day. That's all I can do") as proof of Zen profundity, there's the temptation to believe he received his gift from some monk on a mountaintop. It doesn't quite fit that Japan's master hitter actually grew up an American clichE: Ichiro worked himself to greatness...