Word: interpreted
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...urges the church to work against "homophobia," the fear and loathing of homosexuals. But agreement only went so far. A conservative minority, consisting of Lovelace and two other theologians, an expert in ethics and a local pastor, filed a 19-page report. It urges the forthcoming General Assembly to interpret the church constitution as banning practicing homosexuals from the clergy and the lay offices of elder and deacon, though accepting homosexuals who remain celibate...
...supported state headed by Palestine Liberation Organization Leader Yasser Arafat. But Carter spoke of the "legitimate rights of the Palestinian people," including the right "to participate in the determination of their own future"-and that was good enough for Sadat. Said one elated Egyptian official: "Our press already is interpreting Carter's statement as self-determination. The Israelis probably will interpret it differently. But if we can agree on that statement, it will serve a purpose very much like Resolution 242* ambiguous enough so that each can accept it on his own terms but positive enough to form...
...wild-eyed precursor of romanticism disdained organized religion and mocked rigid science. He was his own martyr, church and congregation, his own teacher, pupil and school. Blake's art and poetry only seem naive; in fact they are so dense with nuance and implication that each generation must interpret them anew. The modern reader can have no better introduction to the oeuvre than Milton Klonsky's William Blake: The Seer and His Visions (Harmony Books; 142 pages; $12 hardcover, $6.95 paper). Excerpts of poetry and prophecy mingle with hundreds of illustrations, including 32 plates in the colors...
...hard-to-interpret vote of the Committee on Houses and Undergraduate Life (CHUL) apparently pushed the teetering Fox in the nobreakfast direction. The committee voted, 10-9, against hot breakfasts for spring term, with CHUL chairman Dean Rosovsky, whom CHUL is supposed to advise, breaking a tie. Fox cited the wishy-washy nature of CHUL's student members' support for the proposal as a reason for his decision...
Only the last two lines of the ancient poem were visible by the time the archaeologists unearthed the pedestal, and they would spend the rest of their careers trying to interpret the mysterious glyphs. The words carved in stone read: "Merry Christmas to all, and to all a good night...