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...sentiment behind this set-up is revealed when it is written; "A disciplinary committee of the Faculty established to interpret and enforce a statement of principles..." (Ibid., p. 2, emphasis added) No mention is made of student right to interpret the supposed "principles," though these principles champion equality among all members of the academic community...
Sole Guardians. There is a politically significant difference in the meaning of the two quotes. According to People's Daily, the "principles laid down" citation was concocted to indicate that only Chiang Ch'ing and her supporters were licensed to interpret Mao's instructions, thus becoming the sole guardians of his heritage. Among the gang's wrong "principles," the paper charged, was seizing power illegally. Chiang Ch'ing had aspired to nothing less than the party chairmanship. Only three days after Mao's death, one member of the gang "arranged for people to write...
With such a comprehensible, attractive Bible available at $2.50 in hardcover, $1.90 paperback, a clergyman phoned Translator Peacock the other day in jest to register a complaint. The Bible, he said, is now "so clear that I don't have to interpret...
...plans to disclose, and release of some other data may soon be compelled by the Securities and Exchange Commission, anyway. The bank has left itself some outs. The code says that BankAmerica will disclose information only to those "with a legitimate need," though officials promise that they will interpret this to include reporters, stockholders and borrowers...
...they have billed themselves since they began their extensive appearances throughout the Brahms B major Trio, Op. 8, as a pre-concert prelude. The work was drastically revised by the mature Brahms, and despite its early opus number, its introspective intensity makes it an extraordinarily difficult work to interpret. But Chang, Kogan, and Ma (upon whom the trio now seems to be less visibly dependent for direction whirled through the work with abandon and brilliance. If anything, the second movement scherzo crept to the edge of brittleness; yet the sustained, almost religious adagio which followed was lyrically breathtaking...