Word: textuality
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Last week the Sun told its readers, "purely in the spirit of exegesis, of textual criticism," what the three dots in Curley's campaign card stood for. It reprinted the full Mencken quote, which ended: "it is much wiser, so long as hanging him is unlawful, to give him a bigger & better...
...Graduate students, who must "take a large number of formal courses, not only in such technical subjects as bibliography and textual criticism, but also in the authors and periods of their specialization. The dangers of premature specialization, resulting from the compulsory Ph.D. for everyone going into the academic profession, are increasingly recognized . . . Nevertheless . . . too many students proceed to their Ph.D. without having acquired a rich enough general education in their subject . . . The view that a man can be a great scholar, critic, and teacher without having produced a Ph.D. thesis has often been urged of recent years in America...
...Reverend John W. Ellison announced today that he has received a grant of $3,250 from the American Philosophical Society to do a textual study of the Gospel of St. Luke on the University's latest computer. Construction on Mark IV will probably be completed in the spring...
...first Catholic Bible in English to be drawn directly from the original languages rather than from the official Catholic text, the Latin Vulgate completed by St. Jerome in the year 405, and the first to use the "better understanding of Hebrew and of the science of textual criticism . . . since the time of St. Jerome." But the new text is accompanied by very conservative Biblical criticism...
Throughout, the impression was unavoidable that in both choice and interpretation of selections, too much stress was laid upon seeking works notable either for their historical significance or textual content. Tone, precision, sonority--the overall musical possibilities open to some 200 mixed voices were not given enough weight. In the final analysis, it is the sound of music which determines its worth, and the Harvard groups have been straying from this basic premise of late...