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...faith in the aging prophet rebounded when he fielded Russert's question on the Second Amendment. Russert produced the text of the statute: "A well-regulated militia being necessary to the security of a free State, the right of the people to keep and bear arms shall not be infringed." Given that the Amendment explicitly justifies the right to bear arms on the grounds that a citizen militia is essential to national security, Russert asked, doesn't that mean that the right is void now that we no longer require a militia? Heston simply said "no"--and he is right...
Even those, like myself, who believe in the need to meaningfully regulate fire arms must recognize that these ends should not be achieved by explaining away clear Constitutional text. Only a Constitutional Amendment can make the second amendment say what anti-gun activists want it to say. At least Moses understood that...
...modern music: Berg's Seven Early Songs, begun in the composer's twenty-first year. The music is motley, elusive stuff that manages to sound at times like Schumann and at others like Schoenberg. The poetry of the seven different poets is altogether better and fresher than the Schubert texts. Of special literary value is Rilke's text for the fourth song, "The Crown of Dreams," but the musical hair-raisers were the first ("Night") and seventh ("Summer Days"). In each, Upshaw's intonation and delivery etched certain phrases in the mind: "Gib acht" ("give heed") in the first song...
...Close reading. the abbility to make out what a text says or what the author intended it to say. It is true that understanding a poem and understanding a mathematical proof call for different reading skills. Yet I believe that the two sets of skills have much in common, and that someone who is proficient in one is well placed to learn the other. In music and the fine arts, the analogous skills are close listening and close seeing...
...people who have ideological disagreements with your position that have nothing to do with the actual text in front of them," Wood said...