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Boyer and Nissenbaum trace the efforts of Salem Village--an extension of Salem peopled mainly by farmers who led their lives in time-honored ways--to win independence from an increasingly maritime and commercial Salem Town. The two authors interpret the support given both Parris and the witch trials by the Village's well-to-do but socially immobile farmers as an expression of deep-seated, complex anxieties provoked by the increasingly individualistic and commercialistic outlook of the townspeople who had hired Parris. Traditional patterns of order and hierarchy throughout New England were giving way to what would become 18th...
...many of South Viet Nam's young refugees, day-to-day contact with war has bred an obsession with death. Some children worriedly interpret wrinkles and white hair on visitors or grandparents as a sure sign that their end is imminent. After returning from a trip to South Viet Nam, Lee Sanne Buchanan fell seriously ill with hepatitis, and Kim-Oanh shrank back from her. "I don't like you any more because you are going to die," she said...
There are serious problems with the Haldeman and Nixon versions. The grand jury cited Haldeman for perjury in claiming that the President had said "but it would be wrong." If the jurors had any doubt at all about how to interpret the tape, they would hardly have considered Haldeman's statement to be indictable. Certainly, if Nixon had clearly declared that the payment of hush money was wrong, even though he may have linked it with clemency as well, the jury similarly would not have accused Haldeman of lying...
Kilson replied, "I don't know what remark. My figures [that appeared in the Bulletin] are the official figures. It's not a lie to interpret those figures...
...people," but if the program didn't say so no one would ever know. Nietzsche, Wagner, George Bernard Shaw and many other critics have all written tracts trying to analyze some piece or another in historical or philosophical terms. All they have shown is that you can interpret the "meaning" of a piece of music almost any way you please...