Word: interpretive
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...Last week his language was more Clintonesque. "There are problems of relationship that arise in most American families," he said. "[The connection to Thornberry] is not a sexual relationship, as people know it, but it is a very affectionate relationship. Affair is a word you have to interpret...
Through the SDRC, students with a range of disabilities can request services to aid them with all aspects of college life. In the case of students who are hard of hearing, the center is equipped to interpret classes, speeches, meetings and other events that are part of normal student life in a variety of ways, including American Sign Language (ASL), signed English, Computer Aided Real-Time (CART) reporters and cued speech transliteration...
...blame them if their parents, the college students of the 60s, managed to communicate these values to them. The particular boredom and family-oriented ambition of today's college students is a quieter and more relaxed version of 60s discontent with book-learning. It would be a mistake to interpret the results of the poll as a crass materialism or existential boredom. Who can blame college first-years for knowing what they want out of life...
...look past all of the potential p.c. faux pas and can interpret Keillor to be wistful rather than patronizing, the novel's heart truly comes through. "The stream of insults that life directs at you cannot be vanquished by skill or cunning," John comments. "You can't fight your way clear. You can't outsmart life. The only answer is to be loved so that nothing else matters so much." Such honest, simple wisdom can rarely be argued with. Keillor may preach and he may be politically biased, but the man is still talented, hilarious, and a damn good story...
...occasion of their 50th wedding anniversary last week, she did strike a surprising note of intimacy. Talking at one point about the need to be sensitive to the public's will, she said, "I have done my best, with Prince Philip's constant love and help, to interpret it correctly..." There it was--the word love. Yes, she had tucked it away in a parenthetical phrase, but no one could remember the Queen's ever using it in a personal context. Will it now replace "duty" in her lexicon...