Word: textual
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Your report suggests that the Bible encodes knowledge of the future that can be discovered through biblical gematriot and textual interpretation. We skeptics, however, believe that all books are written ultimately by man. We have a simpler explanation: what men or women put into a book, other men or women can take out of a book--be it murky wordplays about the future ("assassin will assassinate"), Euclid's geometry, clues to Agatha Christie murders ("the butler did it") or a recipe book in any language ("add a pinch of salt"). BERNARD W. POWELL North Miami Beach...
...most Americans, is under attack for being the most powerful and tyrannical branch of the federal government. I was fortunate enough to have asked him a question at Hilell last Monday night. Is the conservative claim that over roughly the last 30 years the Supreme Court has gradually abandoned textual interpretation of the Constitution valid, I asked. His response was that literal interpretation is difficult to define, and that, in any event, examining trends was not his job. This exchange exemplified the current debate over the nature and future of the Supreme Court...
...Supreme Court has become accustomed to deciding cases, not based on the text of the Constitution, but rather on what the justices think the meaning of Constitution should be (a question betraying a Scalian mind set)? I understood his answer to be, "There is no such thing as a 'textual' argument, or one that is self-evident from the text. Rather, the Constitution is an evolving document that must be understood in relation to changing circumstances...
...work, largely textual, incorporates quotes from essays by Walter Benjamin and Kosuth himself into a montage of philosophical meanderings that derives most of its forcefulness from Kosuth's chosen venues of display. The exhibit thus records not only Kosuth's work, but the context in which the work was originally displayed. One of the projections and a majority of the photographs show Kosuth's text as first introduced to the public: printed on newspapers, computer screens, banners, buildings and big-city billboards...
Funny that a textual scholar of national standing and a leading authority on Dickinson should both overlook problems as fundamental as an inaccurate understanding of the poet and mistaken "word choice" on my part...