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...Nina's task is to make sense out of the Randall effect. It emerges slowly in the weave of story lines about the lives and times of Nina's parents and siblings. Her climactic musing over the family photos arranged before her: "Which had the most power? Freud? That analytic version of my parents' life, which insisted that Randall -- and their misery -- had its source in my mother's wackiness and should be struggled against, fought, cured? Or the annunciations, which said, in effect, that Randall was holy, that the failure was my father's in not accepting what...
...ties. The breakup of the Eberhardt marriage and the difficulties of the children as they come of age in the counterculture 1960s and self-absorbed '70s are plausible with or without the issue of autism. In fact, when Miller is at her most perceptive and sympathetic, Randall, Bettelheim and Freud seem incidental baggage to this otherwise affecting family novel about changing values and resilient affections...
...droop, and grading habits relax. Try to get on the bottom of the pile.) Again, it is not that A.E.'s are vicious or ludicrous as such; but in quantity they become sheer madness. Or induce it. "The 20th century has never recovered from the effects of Marx and Freud" (V.G.); "but whether this is a good thing or a bad thing is difficult to say." (A.E.) Now one such might be droll enough. But by the dozen? This, the quantitative aspect of grading--we are, after all, getting $5 a head for you dolls and therefore pile...
...notion that the study of Adam Smith, Karl Marx, Max Weber, Emile Durkheim or Sigmund Freud (all "naughtily left-wing writers") is a waste of time, it is astonishingly boorish. Not only did their writings exert some influence on modern society, but Davis' discipline owes its existence and many of its directions to such writers...
...write to contest the association that Professor of Sociology James A. Davis draws between sophistry and Social Studies. Professor Davis may know something about sophistry, but seems to know little about Social Studies. The authors on whom the Social Studies. sophomore tutorial focuses include Adam Smith, Emile Durkheim, Sigmund Freud and Max Weber, none particularly obscure or left-wing; and I for one cling to the old-fashioned view that the arguments of such authors, deceased or not, can tell us a good deal about modern society. More than a few distinguished sociologists seem to agree...