Word: reinterpreting
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...Constitutionalists hold that each age of Americans must reinterpret the Constitution in the light of changed social and economic conditions. Throughout the New Deal, the man who has held this belief most firmly has been Attorney General Robert Houghwout Jackson; and on the basis of Jackson's thinking, Franklin Roosevelt made his appointments to the Supreme Court. To do the job he sent up Hugo LaFayette Black (October 1937), Stanley Forman Reed (January 1938), Felix Frankfurter (January 1939), William Orville Douglas (April 1939) and Frank Murphy (February 1940). Liberally interpreted, these men are the new Constitution...
...early in February, this time of the paintings of Mr. Martin Mower. And I was exceedingly pleased to learn that other Houses are planning similar loan exhibitions of well known painters. Yet I do earnestly hope that similarity of activities among the Houses will not be encouraged: For, to reinterpret the old proverb, birds of a feather, really never get anyplace...
...Russell T. Sharpe, in an article appearing today in the Atlantic Monthly, seeks to reinterpret the relation of the college to the needy student. There is at present a two to one ratio between the requirements for financial aid and the capacity of the channels existing to provide it. Mr. Sharpe constructs the problem, views the current solutions, and remarks that he feels sure that the colleges will face it wisely and intelligently...
Immanuel Kant (1724-1804). It was to unite and reinterpret these objections, to save religion from reason and at the same time preserve science from skepticism, that Kant paraded methodically under the lindens at Konigsberg. He accomplished his task and inaugurated the era of critical philosophy by showing: that not all knowledge is sensory, Space and Time being a priori; that while matter its.elf cannot be known, its existence can be known, its laws known as fixed; that we are born with mental categories from which there is no escape, categories implying an imperative morality and a necessity for religion...