Word: interpretive
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Negro preacher conducting a Southern Sunday-school class, is made living and bright on the stage. The Green Pastures has a storybook simplicity, a picture-book vividness. It has the folk imagination's ability to recreate in its own image, to animate with its own sufferings, to interpret with its own morality. Now & then, with a homely detail, it contrives an awesome effect; or with an incongruous touch reveals an unexpected meaning. Everything is most unmystically concrete: Heaven is a Southern fish fry, Babylon is a honkytonk...
...hope for a thorough analysis, not merely a tabulation of results," Colo said. The committee will seek opinions from both sides, so the Council can make specific recommendations to the Faculty Committee on General Education. The results will also be used to interpret future student reactions to the courses...
...believe a play that doesn't have an idea in it isn't worth its salt," he told his audience. Yet he pointed out that the best money-makers are musical comedies which "require little effort to interpret...
...born in 1759, in an Ayrshire clay cottage built by his tenant-farming father. Within a week, the roof blew in on little Rab (no one ever called him "Bobbie"). He was too young to interpret the omen, but father Burns had a flair for failure. At nine, Rab was taken out of the little parish school and put to work on the farm. When he died at 37, it was the rheumatic heart acquired in youth not drink, that killed him. He once described his life as "an uphill gallop from the cradle to the grave...
...only were the Russians apt to be taller than the Chinese; they brought their own rules, their own heavier ball, and their own referee. Chinese, used to playing by American rules, were told that Russian rules are the "international rules." The Russian referee was there to interpret the Russian rules right...