Word: interpretive
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Little Acre was written in six weeks in Maine, geographically and temperamentally as far from his Georgia characters as he could have gotten. Of the book he says, "It's just a story; anybody can interpret it any way they want to, but I was just trying to tell a story. I studied economics and sociology, but I don't put them into my stories." Caldwell makes no claims to sophistication, except if by sophistication, you mean being more aware of the situation around you, having an expanded knowledge of people. We use a plain table service...
...contemporary for the year in which it is written. People themselves are softer now." Caldwell sees his job as a writer as making him into a sort of vocal mirror. "I just try to reflect life. I'm not trying to prove anything. A writer, though, does have to interpret, too. I try to do it, try to illuminate a little bit, enlighten." When looking for a character, he looks for the one thing which makes him different, the part of him that's original. "I hope I have everything in a story, and sure, that means...
...fated to do his best work. In comedy he has shown what he can do wonderfully well-the little men with the monstrous obsessions, the secret lives of the wicked Walter Mittys. In Kwai and in The Prisoner he suggests that, as well as any living actor, he can interpret a specifically modern sort of hero-the man who is not meant to conquer the world but to battle within himself...
...They are a doxology [and] establish the consensus with the fathers." The Missouri Synod and its conservative associates in the SYNODICAL CONFERENCE (see Chart) stand unalterably on acceptance of the confessions "because"-not "insofar as" -they are in agreement with the Bible. They are equally firm on 1) literal interpretation of the Bible and 2) refusal to join any group whose members do not interpret the Word exactly as they...
...hell instead of a newspaper. The House of Assembly hastily voted its hearty displeasure, profound indignation, and poignant regret over the editorial. The News, visibly stiffening its upper lip. explained at length that no offense was intended and that the writer had merely been trying in philosophical vein to interpret the "signs of our hectic times.'' But Toddings admitted ruefully that in 40 years "I have never known a newspaper to be on a more defenseless wicket.'' He added sternly that the News editor who passed the piece had been "brought to book." The editor...