Word: interpret
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...well as Philistines. The trick is to be artistic, and occasionally to snap out of it. Most of the pieces in the Advocate do not heighten or clarify what they talk about, nor do they entertain. They either grab the reader by the intellect and dare him to interpret them, or they flirt ambiguously with him. Too often the Advocate's authors "confound obscurity of expression with the expression of obscurity," as Poe put it. A good poem should sound good the first time around -- but it's entirely possible to slide through this whole magazine without being moved...
...Hargraves of the center, "is 'look at the real conditions in the city.' " The students also meet for seminars, Bible in hand, trying to relate their experience to their faith as Christians. "We're throwing these guys into new situations which they've got to interpret theologically," says Lutheran Theologian Richard Luecke. "The problem is how to use an ancient text like the Bible in unparalleled new situations. This is what the seminaries...
...suspected Irish Republican Army terrorist, whom Ireland locked up for three months without a hearing under "emergency" laws, had questioned the legality of his imprisonment. The court upheld Defendant Ireland's action as justified under the circumstances; in so doing, it also asserted its then disputed right to interpret the convention and pass upon the conduct of subscribing nations...
Abortion is illegal everywhere in the U.S., but 45 states make an exception if physicians are convinced that it is necessary to save a woman's life. Some medical men interpret the laws liberally to protect not only the woman's life but also her health - and the health of her expected child. If the laws are narrowly construed, many of the therapeutic abortions now being performed in first-rate hospitals by reputable doctors are technically illegal...
...poll tax won't keep 'em from voting," Mississippi's infamous Senator Theodore Bilbo used to snort. "What keeps 'em from voting is Section 244 of the Constitution of 1890." That section stipulated that voters−Negro voters, anyway−must be able to interpret a state constitution that, as Bilbo chortled, "damn few white men and no niggers at all can explain...