Word: interpretive
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...liked the suggestions for personal reflection," said Fiona S. Graff '02. The sermon "was open so you could interpret...
Like so much coming out of the White House, Hillary's anger could be one more piece of spin, which makes it hard to interpret her switch to a hyper-smiley face during a flurry of public appearances at the end of last week. If Hillary had been faking anger because that's what any normal person would feel, she did it well. Rather than say anything herself, she issued a chilly statement of forgiveness through an aide. The Administration seemed eager to disclose that the Martha's Vineyard vacation was a time for "healing." It certainly wasn...
...that we love being spun. The networks vie for the privilege of having the next round of lies uttered on their particular Sunday talk show. It's called "advancing the story." Correspondents, only human, are flattered to be leaked upon by important people. Spinning gives journalists something to interpret. If politicos ever started saying it straight, reporters would have nothing to be knowing about...
...learned my campers' names on the first day, but I have yet to understand the realities of their daily lives, the feeling they have when I take them home and the attitudes which they display about their time in camp. I am paying attention. I am struggling to interpret our cryptic conversations about race and difference. I am trying to remember what my life felt like in third grade. And I am reminded, each day, that my awareness of their backgrounds is pitifully incomplete...
Parts of Genesis, she said, were once interpreted to mean people should control their environment for their own ends. But now some theologians interpret them to mean humankind should be "stewards" of the earth...