Word: textual
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Freedom of expression implies, literally, the freedom of interpretation of individual process. While Professor Susan Suleiman's textual reading of George Bataille's "The Story of the Eye" as pornographic art may have felt marginal and esoteric to those uninitiated in the Marxist-Freudian syntheses of feminist literary criticism on which she drew, nevertheless the premises of authority and desire questioned had a very practical aim. Such a reading as Suleiman's illustrates how pornography, like art, lies in the eye of the beholder. The process of intellectual questioning is crucial to transforming cultural values and the kind of sexual...
...complained that "too many courts have become more policy planners than interpreters of the law." The same month, the Justice Department challenged the Supreme Court by filing a brief that proposed reversing the landmark Roe vs. Wade decision, which struck down most legal restrictions on abortion in 1973. "The textual, doctrinal and historical basis for Roe vs. Wade," stated the brief, "is so far flawed and . . . is a source of such instability in the law that this court should reconsider that decision...
Elder, who was a specialist in the history of classical Latin literature, Latin paleography, and textual criticism, had taught at Harvard since 1940 and served as Dean of the Graduate School from...
RALPH MANNHEIM'S fresh translation of E.T.A. Hoffmann's Nutcracker with its Maurice Sendak illustrations is much more than a glitzy sugar and spice Christmas yarn it's a welcome return to textual accuracy. This season the perpetually smiling pecan masher's overly familiar ballet incarnation is finally stripped away to reveal the genuine handmade article from Germany...
...should equip the future student's room with the capability to carry voice and video signals--from the highest tech room to the average dorm room--five years down the road," said Hall, citing cable as a means, to transmit audio, visual, textual and computer data information...