Word: interpretive
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Dates: during 1970-1970
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...than a few-most dissenters turn to violence in a desperate effort to communicate their profound feelings of grievance. Yet surely this is too crude a way to get their message across. A bomb, for example, lacks specificity; its meaning is as scattered as its debris. Some people may interpret such an act as a signal to pay more attention to the protester and his cause; many more are likely to read into it a need to make life a lot tougher for the protester. Violence is, essentially, a confession of ultimate inarticulateness...
...possible to interpret such passages as pleas for reforms that the U.S. must undertake in order to forestall more bitterness and violence. In fact, Douglas urges "political regeneration," not revolution. But the book's perfervid tone and fuzzy phrasing-hardly appropriate from a Supreme Court Justice-garble the message. Ford declared that the book, coming "at a critical time in our history when peace and order are what we need, is less than judicial good behavior...
...book, there is a short epilogue, entitled. "An Epiphanic Conclusion of Some Important Matters." In it. Cecil Brown addresses the character of the book's title and raps about some of the themes presented in the tale itself. He has a few words for those who would try to interpret these themes too sharply from their own point of view, denying them the freedom that the book demands...
RACE. Burger has lately voiced some doubts about the court's summary handling of recent school integration cases. In January, he and Justice Potter Stewart added to one decision a "memorandum" suggesting that the Fifth Circuit Court of Appeals might well have been allowed to interpret the meaning of "at once" in the light of "the various situations of [the] several school districts." A Burger concurring opinion to another decision became an important part of Nixon's desegregation message three weeks ago. Burger urged the court to take future school cases that could "resolve some of the basic...
...Dreams is an improvisational work in which the cast members disclose and interpret their dreams with a stylistic uniqueness that the Pageant Players have engineered, and the Chanukah play relates the Maccabis' struggles against the Greek occupation forces, which is seen as a parallel to the present conflict in Vietnam, reflecting also the role of the American resistance movement against...