Word: interpretive
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Bertrand," or "the Grand Maréchal," or worst of all, since it invited confusion with Napoleon himself, as "he." It was three long years before De Langle could figure out who was talking to whom about what (at times even proper names were abbreviated to initials), and could interpret the above example...
Members of the Jehovah's Witnesses sect interpret this injunction as a divine ban on blood transfusions. Their view of the matter caused commotion in two Texas hospitals last week...
Supreme Court justices frequently interpret the Constitution, occasionally expand on it, and sometimes make a wide end run around it. Last week Associate Justices William O. Douglas and Robert H. Jackson tried something different: they wrote an opinion lobbying for an amendment to change it. In a formal dissent to a decision in the case of Alabama's presidential electors,* Douglas and Jackson took their stand with those who want to abolish the whole antiquated system of electing the President and Vice President of the U.S. by state electoral votes, rather than by straight popular vote...
Sensitive performances, however, especially by students, have become almost extinct. The tendency to interpret, rather than perform, Bach's music has resulted in streamlined superficiality on the one hand, and vitiating sentimentality on the other. But Joseph Ponte played with finesse and precision, as well as fidelity to the composer's intentions...
Arthur M. Schlesinger, Jr. '38, associate professor of History, thought the Truman loss might cause the President either to back Governor Adlai Stevenson of Illinois, who "appeals to the same kind of voter as Kefauver," or interpret the vote as a personal challenge and run again "to vindicate himself...