Word: interpretive
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Conseil d'État will unhesitatingly interpret a law newly passed by the National Assembly in the light of decrees or regulations issued by Francis I or Louis XIII, and use the final and authoritative construction thus put upon it to pour back the new wine into the old bottles of an archaic jurisprudence. Before the last war the Cour des Comptes still used the same antiquated accounting system, the same quill pens, and the same bewildering piles of ledgers that were used in the Chambre des Comptes of the last Capetians [circa 1300]." The typewriter and the calculating...
...awards are part of the 64 fellowships distributed throughout the world by the Foundation this year in the fourth year of its Foreign Study and Research Fellowship program. The program is aimed at "increasing the corps of Americans trained to interpret and deal with problems relating to Asia, the near East, Africa, the Soviet Union and Eastern Europe...
...prompted Chinese Nationalist Joseph Chiang, Washington correspondent of the Chinese News Service, to ask a wry question: "Do you think Chinese Communists now realize America sincerely believes in peace so that she humbly came to America to help to seek peace?" Replied Ike: "Well, you are asking me to interpret people who are a long ways away and . . . with whom I am not too well acquainted. I would say this: I take their words with reservations, but with hope...
...activities of this agency abroad. To me its influence in the cold war on men's minds is as essential as it was in the hot war against their lives. It has been indeed gratifying to note the intellectual range and the vivacity of these foreign colleagues who interpret U.S. democracy - its ideals and aspirations - for their fellow countrymen in so many lands...
...steady sale soon made him prosperous. Six years later he moved into his villa and settled down to the serious business of his life: connoisseurship. Berenson's mind overleaped the customary barriers of 19th-century art criticism. He was not content merely to record, or appraise, or even interpret. Instead, he analyzed what he saw, and thus helped raise art scholarship to a new plane of exactitude. Berenson confirmed, by close study, that every artist's picturemaking is as personal as his handwriting. Even if the painter works in a strict tradition, his personal touch will appear...