Word: interpret
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...standard for judging this race is not hard to find: how does each candidate interpret and propose to solve the crucial problems facing the next Governor? By consensus of most independent observers, those problems are (1) a crisis in governmental finances and in the state's economy in general and (2) governmental corruption. Volpe's record and public utterances reveal a concern for these issues and at least a halting attempt to meet them. His opponent, Francis X. Bellotti, has explicitly denied the existence of both problems, while his actions as Lieutenant-Governor have materially aggravated them...
...faith in God. "Didst Thou give me this inescapable loneliness," he wrote, "so that it would be easier for me to give Thee all?" Inspired by the medieval mystics, he strove to pattern his life after Christ's, an ambition that some Swedish critics of Markings chose to interpret as blasphemy or egomania; yet if Markings makes anything clear, it is that Hammarskjöld was a truly humble man: "How far from both muscular heroism and from the soulfully tragic spirit of unselfishness, which unctuously adds its little offering to the spongecake at a kaffeeklatsch, is the plain...
Linguists well versed in the euphemy of sports lingo would interpret the above analysis to mean, "Boy, are you going to get clobbered this year...
...specifics. To this he must add all he can muster of history, judgment and personal wisdom-the highest kind of statesmanship. Whatever the Constitution's framers envisioned, mused Justice Robert H. Jackson, "must be divined from materials almost as enigmatic as the dreams Joseph was called upon to interpret for Pharaoh...
Soprano Lisa Delia Casa has carved a career for herself in Strauss operas and can also confidently interpret his lieder. Here she sings Zueignung, Stündchen, and other songs of Strauss's youth in a voice like silver filigree. Her accompanist, Arpad Sandor, achieves the same fragile brilliance on the piano as they evoke both the dark and lighter moods of love...