Word: interpreted
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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MONTAIGNE once commented that the clever are usually the least reliable observers of curious customs and events. They interpret them and, "to lend weight and conviction to their interpretations, they cannot help altering history a little," he said. This observation, made in 16th century France, applies all too well to the most recent work of cultural anthropologist Marvin Harris, Cannibals and Kings. This exposition of how the varieties of cultural behavior can be explained as adaptations to ecological conditions is unquestionably the product of an exceedingly clever brain...
...condition for rejoining is that the I.L.O. get off its political soapbox, but the Administration left specific terms for renewed membership undefined. Labor Secretary F. Ray Marshall said that the U.S. would return "when the I.L.O. is again true to its proper principles"-a statement that the Administration could interpret just about any way it wants...
...little unfair. Carter has pitched an extraordinary number of big, Complex, politically divisive proposals at Congress, and it is no surprise that the lawmakers have struck out on a number of them. At his press conference last week, when asked about increasing criticism of his performance, Carter chose to interpret it as praise for his heady pace. "I remember in this room last May," he said with a smile, "someone asked me if my Administration was all style and no substance. Lately the criticisms have been that there's too much substance and not enough style." Yet the much-maligned...
...Rosen's new book, Psychobabble, is an attempt to interpret some of the therapeutic trends outside traditional psychoanalysis that he has observed here in the '70s. The book is not a survey and the issues he addresses ("the relationship between language and psychology and the subversion of that relationship by the jargon of today") are "beyond considerations of who can find what kind of happiness when..." His approach is highly intellectualized rather than that of a "How-to" type guide. It is rarely pedantic, though, barbed as it is by a wit akin to stainless steel wire, brilliant and deadly...
Fletcher, who has witnessed people speaking in tongues, says someone always is able to interpret the language afterwards, whether it be some real language or unrecognizable sounds. He says this interpreter is also possessed of the Holy Spirit...