Word: interpretive
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...populate the works of Anne Tyler; a modern day tragic hero whose Achilles' heel and fatal flaw is a penchant for liquor. Lou Sloane's abrupt and cruel parting from Billie rouses Hex from his lackadaisical work as a publicist. Hex is the only other person who can interpret his mother's "syllabic puree;" he knows that Lou has stuck him 'with her, yet he gradually comes to accept and even relish the challenge of caring...
Meanwhile, the religious fear that if their secular brothers continue to disobey the commandments of their religion, as they interpret them, they will stop being Jews. Says Friedman: "They fear that one morning they will wake up, and there will be no Jewish people anymore." Even some secularists are worried that too many in their ranks are being alienated from their heritage because of disgust with the behavior of the Orthodox. Says author Yehoshua: "I say, You, secular person, open the Talmud for yourself. We need the religious memory and tradition not to find God but to find the historical...
...adds, "Unless you know the values and the standards and the belief systems of the people, it is extremely difficult to interpret their drawings...
Harvard is a particularly easy place for this sort of gut reaction. Given the fact that many students here are very bright and strongly intellectual, most people are very quick to pick up on signals and interpret them in one way or another. For instance, if John is strolling through the yard and passes Marc, who he barely knows, looking down at the ground, John quickly surmises that Marc doesn't recognize him or doesn't like him. No matter if it was an intentional brush off, John will decide that he and Marc are not on speaking terms...
...ancient DNA who says blood from a traumatic death can retain its tint for millenniums. Wilson's conclusion, based as well on the eerie three-dimensional quality of the image's photographic negative, is that it is not, as Bishop d'Arcis contended, a cunning painting. "To try to interpret it as the product of some unknown medieval faker seems rather like arguing for the Taj Mahal being a mere geological accident," he has written. It "must have come into contact with a real body...