Word: reinterprets
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...many men emerge from the ordeal spiritually dried up ... The desire for finding out what had not before been known, the imaginative urge to reinterpret-these the tired and weary student has gradually lost. He has been wrung dry, and, knowingly or not, he often finishes his thesis with the firm resolve to have no more to do with 'scholarship.' " Nor is the emerging Ph.D. "what we mean by an educated man, a man who combines wide-ranging learning with an attitude of simplicity and vividness, and who commingles good taste with an excited curiosity. Rather, he likely...
First of all, too many men emerge from the ordeal spiritually dried up. A queer kind of virtue indeed is under test here. The desire for finding out what had not been known, the imaginative urge to reinterpret--these the tired and weary student has gradually lost. He has been wrung dry, and, knowingly or not, he often finishes his thesis with the firm resolve to have no more to do with "scholarship." The drive--almost the poetic drive--which first excited him and sent him on from college to graduate school...
...Eliot's plays are remarkably like complex mathematical equations painted in vivid colors upon a canvas. Beautiful in conception and poetry, they are still quite meaningless if one cannot solve the formulas and reinterpret the symbols. A number of people laughed when members of the Institute for Advanced Study whispered that Eliot was writing Greek letters on the Institute's blackboards, during his year of residence there. Far from trying to emulate the physicists and logicians, Eliot was merely working his own kinds of unique mathematics; all of his plays fir the same two forms, the simultaneous equation of Greek...
...modern mind, he said, no longer gets any meaning out of such phrases as "the precious name of Jesus," "coming under the blood," and "saved by grace." What is needed now is a Martin Luther of the new Reformation, to take historic doctrines of the Christian faith and reinterpret and restate them ... for the whole soth Century, to read, believe and obey...