Word: interpreters
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...either think one needs a flash to take a picture out of the sun, or they think the camera is a magical mystery tool that might catch them doing anything anytime. This nervous generation of nonphotographers wants some "good, bad" standards to guide it through wearying indecision and to interpret the nonliteral into words...
...interpret the lifted siege of Khe Sanh [April 12] as a reciprocal act by the North Vietnamese for the decreased bombing of the North. The siege was lifted because 6,000 outnumbered Marines, who were never doubtful of the outcome of the impending attack, made a stand. They fought, slept and died in the muddy trenches they called home, while Americans sitting before their color television sets called Khe Sanh a mistake...
...Judging from Hanoi's past performance, I imagine that the Communists will reject Mr. Johnson's peace plan. They will interpret the President's withdrawal as a sign of weakness and an indication that the American people are nearly ready to give up. With these thoughts the Communists will step up their offensive. Americans, in turn, will be outraged at the enemy's acts of war and lack of humility. The criers will come to stand behind the President and go for a military victory. What politician would refuse an all-out draft campaign...
...Bowman, probably dead (if we are to interpret make-up in conventional terms) finds himself in a room decorated with Louis XVI period furniture with fluorescent-light floors. He sees himself at different stages of old age and physical decay. Perhaps he is seeing representative stages of what is life would have been had he not been drawn into the infinite. As a bed-ridden dying man, the monolith appears before him and he reaches out to it. He is replaced by a glowing embryo on the bed and, presumably, reborn or transfigured into an embryo-baby enclosed...
...almost any time, The Nation is the busiest of our sections. In election years, the pressure on its staff to analyze and interpret what's going on in U.S. politics means longer and more intense hours of work and shortened or postponed vacations. The hours began to get longer last week. Following Senator Eugene McCarthy's showing in the New Hampshire primary and Bobby Kennedy's big announcement, it was not until Saturday that the editors decided that Senator McCarthy, the relatively little-known figure who had started the week's upheaval...