Word: interpreting
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...board of the Cornell Daily Sun starts its coming year with the illuminating statement that "through its editorial columns it will seek to interpret or comment upon current news and events of the day as well as upon questions of a more or less academic tenor, holding that mere discussion or view of a moot problem is often of as much value as taking a definitely defined position regarding its consideration or solution...
...cause backed by a host of Harvard graduates, who have many times before offered to endow such a school. A word from the University is sufficient to set in motion a drive which would very quickly give us a fine experimental theatre where student actors should interpret the plays by student authors, an experimental theatre which would be a glorious testimony to the breadth of vision of Harvard University...
...cannot too much rejoice in this new-found champion. Under the impetus furnished by Mr. Lowrie, Pittsburgh will undoubtedly dispel its cloud and become the aesthetic center of the country. Perhaps strong-minded school teachers, nurtured in the best traditions of Kalamasas, will interpret much-discussed passages in Babelais, and the Chicago school of literary self-explorers become more than stock-yard rimesters. Culture, liberty, and individualism have at last come to their predestined habitat...
They thought, as Senator Jim Reed of Missouri was reported to have actually said: "We'll have to tame him." The taming process they regarded as easy; the Vice President, as presiding officer, has almost no power. He can only interpret the rules; while, on the floor, Senators can say anything they like about him or to him, confident that they can make him appear a jackass...
...Deak of this work of art, light, brilliant, always full of interest, delicately molded, replete with homeliness and the sincere religious feeling of the time. The dialogue is sparkling, admirably shaded, always true to life and full of verve and good humor. For a troupe of young Americans to interpret a play so preeminently French must certainly have presented countless difficulties. Moreover, the actors all deserve great credit for their performance last Saturday night. In the ensemble, they were eminently successful. The general movement of the performance was perhaps a little slow, an impression which was accentuated by the length...