Word: interpreting
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...kindness" and the child thinks itself unloved. ¶"Too much love of a certain type" is just as bad, "protecting him from life, filling his suggestible mind with nebulous fears." This results in "ego impotency." ¶The child must be punished, but he should not be allowed to interpret punishment as a withdrawal of love. "Do not forget that the severest punishment a child can receive may be only a facial expression...
...Chinese wanted to interpret the procedural exception as opening the way for both discussion and investigation of a dispute even if one of the Big Five objected. Britain and the U.S. would not go that far. They would permit "discussion" over the objection of a Big Power, but not "investigation...
...given it all the interest of a true play. His script is always simple, sometimes touching, never flashy, only here & there a little cute. And Composer Rodgers has swathed it in one of his warmest and most velvety scores. More than a succession of tunes, the music helps interpret the story; it has operatic climaxes, choral fullness, choreographic lilt. But it is still in tunes that Composer Rodger's real magic lies-whether the tender If I Loved You, the light, murmurous This Was a Real Nice Clam Bake, the full-throated sweetness of June Is Bustin...
...technological school" in his native Missouri. As soon as the will was published, six Missouri colleges put in a claim. The Continental Illinois National Bank & Trust Co. of Chicago, Mr. Sever's trustee, ran for cover, leaving the Cook County Court to appoint a three-man committee to interpret the will. On the premise that Mr. Sever's intention was to set up a new school and not to expand one already existing, the committee decided in favor of St. Louis University, which has no technological school and had made no claim to the bequest...
...class would-be emulator of Will Rogers. In "Heavenly Days," McGee goes to Washington and makes a damn fool of himself by trying to make a speech from the Senate gallery in praise of the Amurrican virtues as they are vulgarly conceived. Apparently the Army authorities who have to interpret Congress' law thought that some of the things Fibber said might be considered anti-Administration propaganda, but they have now realized that it's all quite harmless, and not even funny...