Word: interpret
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Dates: during 1970-1970
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Military advocates argue that the Kremlin would interpret any reduction in U.S. nuclear weapons as a sign of weakness. But the U.S. could counter such an impression by using part of the savings from a nuclear cutback to increase the efficiency of its conventional forces. In fact, a sensible adjustment of the U.S. nuclear arsenal might help restore faith abroad in the wisdom of American actions while putting the onus on the Soviets to scale down their own nuclear storehouse...
...individuals, so that credit is difficult if not impossible to apportion. We have followed this method not out of any abstract devotion to what has sometimes been called group journalism, but because of TIME'S basic function, which is to organize the week's news and to interpret it in a systematic, orderly and relatively concise fashion. To carry out that function, we cannot simply print a collection of dispatches from various reporters. A TIME story is usually the work of one skilled writer who blends many contributions from correspondents, researchers and editors...
...discover and interpret the newest uses and abuses of the flag, TIME'S correspondents interviewed Americans of every age and calling. In Atlanta, Joyce Leviton talked to James Wilson, a talented black craftsman who had invented a flagstaff for auditoriums, embodying a concealed fan to make the flag ripple. He did this, he explained, because of his pride in the flag-"It looks better flying than hanging limply from the flagpole." For Washington's Paul Hathaway, searching out the meaning of the flag was an elusive assignment. "You take the flag for granted for so long that...
Right now, your breathing and my speech have a pattern to them and if we were outside of ourselves, listening. we could interpret something about how and why things were going as they were just from the rhythmic sense of what's you. That kind of consideration was made repeatedly, over and over and over again, as we worked on the piece. We tried also to look at what is actual, like at the simplest level, there are two men talking to each other, talking to two other people in trashcans, sometimes talking to the audience. sometimes talking to themselves...
...becomes an authentically possessed figure. On the slow numbers, the words are not sung; they seem to float from her throat. The uptempo songs could survive almost any rendition, but when Elly sings them, she charges them with alternating currents of energy and melancholia. She does not interpret the songs, she becomes their owner-and their tenant. In Carousel, she sings in a lazy, wheeling style-until suddenly the merry-go-round lurches out of control. The carousel spins elliptically, dangerously, until the singer reaches an unbearable frenzy -and shatters. Audiences that witness such tours de force know what...