Word: interpret
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Dates: during 1970-1970
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Agnew read McCall's reaction to his speech of the previous night to the group. Reagan told McCall that he was guilty of violating the Eleventh Commandment: Thou shalt not criticize another Republican. Later, one Governor recalled that Agnew learned that not only newsmen can interpret his remarks in various ways. "Those were Republicans in there, all of them loyal to the party, and we had seven or eight different interpretations of his banquet talk. Agnew was really shaken. For McCall, it was a session of acute personal embarrassment. But if the Vice President learns to deal with...
...Many people will interpret this report as an attempt to shut down the MAT program, as Yale and Johns Hopkins have had to do with theirs," Sizer added. "We're most emphatically not shutting the program down, we're trying to make it better...
...recent apodictic certitudes on contemporary industrial society has inflicted him with so shattering an intellectual crisis, that he has taken refuge in fatality and historical cycles. I fear Professor Lipset risks wholly abdicating the intellectual's endeavor to understand the world-one might add, not only to interpret the world but to change it. Such an abdication portends serious consequences for his work...
...obviously very difficult to interpret or predict the duration of given political trends and cultural styles. To forecast such developments is similar to dealing with the weather. The best prediction about tomorrow's weather is that it will be the same as today's, but whatever phase we are in, a heat wave, a cold wave, a rainy season, this, too, is sure to end and be followed by a very different type of climate. In politics, conditions which encourage the growth of right-wing or left-wing movements, or of relative stability and little political interest, also last...
When the administration did not interpret the petition as a convincing show of strength, the student organizers resorted to moderate civil disobedience. The subsequent refusal of roughly 800 students to cross picket lines to eat in their own House dining halls (when they could always eat elsewhere on interhouse) cannot be equated with unqualified support of the organizers position. But it caught our attention, and it gave us a political education...