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Widely regarded as the world's leading psychoanalyst, Freud has spent almost six decades teaching, practicing and refining the techniques developed by her father, Sigmund. The foremost authority on child analysis, Freud has been director of the Hampstead Child Therapy Course and Clinic since...
Mayr, Agassiz Professor of Zoology Emeritus at Harvard, is one of the world's foremost experts on evolution, although his work of more than four decades spans the gamut of ornithology, systematics and the history and philosophy of biology. Director of the University's Museum of Comparative Zoology from 1961 to 1970, he has written many volumes on evolution, including Populations, Species and Evolution, Systematics and the Origins of Species and Evolution and the Diversity of Life...
...articles are as much a part of Roman life as the traffic. In addition, Moravia benefits from the special relationship European authors have with their readers. Strangers greet him on the street, and journalists constantly seek his opinions. At 72 he still considers himself one of Rome's foremost "emergency intellectuals," a cultural SWAT team always ready to sign a petition, write protest letters or give interviews for liberal causes...
...scholar first and foremost, and she seemed to have the right qualities insofar as she had dealt with students and can empathize with them," she added...
...openly claim that the school boasts national sports power, they also won't readily humble themselves to admitting that we have a program that just cannot stack up against "major-leaguing" sports universities. And it shouldn't--not if this is going to remain the nation's foremost educational institution. Unfortunately, very few people can combine top-flight scholarship with superstar capabilities: most mortals must choose one or the other, making the second choice an avocation, more than a profession. (In that rare category of scholar-athletes, Harvard draws a fairly good proportion of the people: but such wonders prove...