Word: interpreting
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...even a one-organization effort. His current registration crusade has received wide attention, although it is only part of a larger campaign that includes the Urban League, the N.A.A.C.P. and other civil rights organizations. "I am a catalyst for change," says Jackson. "People invite me to interpret an issue and draw a crowd...
...turn of the century was an experience more closely allied to other national arts than to the nickelodeon fever of the West. Until 1918 female roles were played by Kabuki actors in drag. Until the arrival of talking pictures in 1931, audiences depended upon spellbinding narrators called benshi to interpret the on-screen action; many were more popular than the country's movie stars. Though Japanese cinema was a strong force in Asia (so much so that in Thailand the word nippon came to mean movies), its films were virtually unknown in the West. Haifa century later it would...
...followed by Foreign Minister Andrei Gromyko, who charged that the U.S. was pursuing "an obstructionist line" in talks on arms reductions in Geneva. The U.S., he said, thinks "not in terms of parity but in terms of superiority." But Gromyko also emphasized the importance of negotiations. U.S. officials interpret the tone of both speeches as yet another hint that the Soviets are keeping the door open in the talks on nuclear arms limitation. Last month Andropov had given that message to former U.S. Ambassador to Moscow Averell Harriman, and last week Soviet television allowed Deputy Secretary of State Kenneth...
...They just don't listen" is a familiar cry. Blacks become frustrated and angry, an attitude which University officials seem to interpret as radical malcontentism when they stubbornly refuse to give in to Black demands. This leads in turn to more bitterness and rage. And around in a vicious circle it goes, with hostility and misunderstanding feeding on each other and resulting in the very separatism and mistrust the University tries to avoid...
...ring-binders snap open and shut as Professor David Wise sketches a graph on the board. Wise has the reputation of being a good teacher with a sense of humor who makes the most out of the reputedly dry subject. Today's lecture covers specification analysis, or how to interpret data to correctly identify trends. For example, how to look at the health data of a certain population to determine the effect of pollution on that community...