Word: interpreters
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...threatening his hearers with fearful torment so much as reminding them that life is set within a divine order in which man reaps the harvest of his deeds. "We have no right," says the committee, "on the basis of this parable, to go further than this and interpret Hell as the place of everlasting fiery torment...
...room service is always prompt, but when it is in trouble, the waiters are always late and the sandwiches soggy); there is Hart's law for the aspiring director (the less sure he is of himself, the tougher he must be with the cast). Hart knows how to interpret all the sounds made by an audience: the implications of their coughs, the degrees of their laughter, the intensity of their applause-and he also knows that "there is never again the sound of trumpets like the sound of the New York opening-night audience giving a play its unreserved...
...references to songs. Of course we can't have singing without dancing too. I'll advertise my version as 'a music and dance extravaganza of Twelfth Night.' [Webster's Dictionary defines 'extravaganza' as something "wildly irregular."] Malvolio has a phrase in the play, "the fools' zanies." I'll just interpret that as "the Fool's zanies" and create two new characters, a singing zany and a dancing zany, to accompany Feste the Fool; and the three of them will provide a running counterpoint throughout the show...
...Paul Riesman's essay on "mentally fat professors," the quality of the writing in the first issue of Gadfly is surpassed only by a mediocre Gen. Ed. essay. Also included in this issue is a short piece in French, which, after reading, I leave for the more esoteric to interpret, and an enigmatic scrawl on art and Ezra Pound written for a very special "in-group" to discuss over their Turkish tea at the Cafe Mozart...
Another theory is that the Sputniks' Geiger tubes were blacked out near apogee by Van Allen radiation, and that the Russian scientists did not know how to interpret this odd behavior. The live dog carried in Sputnik II died in about a week, but the Russians have not told whether it was affected by radiation sickness. Very likely they do not know...