Word: interprets
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...take the form of shots at the church (to lessen the ennui, a churchgoer reads "Hustler" during a service Bethany attends), but never do they lead to God-bashing. You see, Smith doesn't satirize God, per se--he satirizes the inadequate human perception of God. Our quest to interpret the will of the divine has lead humans to murder, war, persecution, suspicion, and a bevy of other moral wrongs. The funny (and much less extreme) situation that Smith uses pictures one Cardinal Glick (George Carlin) unveiling a less then admirable rendering of their Savior to promote his "Catholicism...
...that note, we bowl a few more rounds, continually watching the stick figure graphic interpret our skills in a celebratory or teasing way. Eventually, with half of the frames filled, the score has evened out a bit, and Putnam leads by 3 points...
...state's concern that fundamentalist Christians may seek to provoke acts of violence to speed the return of Christ at the dawning of the millennium. And there's some basis to that fear. While the millennium itself means little to mainstream Judaism or Islam, a number of evangelical Christians interpret biblical prophecies to mean that the Messiah's return must begin with an apocalyptic final conflict that begins in the Holy City. Israeli leaders are all too aware that anyone who wishes to provoke such a conflict need simply attack the Islamic holy sites on the Temple Mount...
Senior Sarah Bradberry sits on the floor, reading The Whipping Boy for her children's literature class. She scribbles answers to questions printed on purple paper, homework she should have done over the weekend. The class, she says, is easy. All the students do is interpret books written at third-grade levels. "I need the English credit to graduate," she says. Just down the hall, you see another kid, copying answers from one purple sheet to another...
Okay, okay, that's not quite what I meant. Katherine Loker is a fine human being whose remarkable magnanimity has served Harvard in a number of areas, from endowing professorships to renovating Widener Library. We should all strive to be as thoughtful and generous as she. So don't interpret this as some diatribe against Mrs. Loker. Lord knows, I wouldn't want to offend some of you sensitive types out there...