Word: interpretions
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...Anyone who can interpret Ray Charles's Let's Go Get Stoned as "a call to take part in a freedom march" [July 1] has scrambled eggs in the head. Are double-entendres in music new? Old songs like All or Nothing at All, All the Way and Come Fly with Me couldn't pass a purity test. Was Kern a dirty old man when he wrote Easy to Love! Was Hammerstein thinking lewd thoughts as he penned I'm Just a Girl...
...business, speed is distrusted because it precludes those subtle soundings that make it unnecessary ever to say that devastatingly face-destroying word "no." The Chinese, Thai and Burmese have no word at all for "no"-leaving one to interpret from context, facial expression or some other nuance whether or not "perhaps" is a flat turndown...
...nearly every ship in his command to rendezvous just outside what he thought would be the farthest radius of Japanese air patrols. Nimitz urged on his commanders the same policy principle of "calculated risk" that he himself had followed in ordering his ships to Midway. He explained: "You shall interpret this to mean the avoidance of exposure of your force to attack by superior enemy forces without good prospect of inflicting, as a result of such exposure, greater damage on the enemy...
Anglicans have typically mixed views on the subject. Although the Prayer Book rubrics imply that communicants should be confirmed, many churches interpret the rule liberally: Episcopal churches in Washington, for example, have allowed President Johnson, a Disciple of Christ, to receive Communion...
Explosive Expansion. While they assessed the Russian information, Western scientists continued to interpret Luna 9's pictures. London University Astronomer Gilbert Fiedler called attention to lines in some of the pictures that might be edges of an ancient lava flow; he agreed with the Russians and many American scientists that the porous surface resulted from the explosive expansion of gases in the lava as it emerged onto the moon's airless surface...