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Frederick Crews, a professor of English at the University of California, Berkeley, and a well-known reviewer and critic, once enthusiastically applied Freudian concepts to literary works and taught his students to do likewise. Then he grew disillusioned and now ranks as one of Freud's harshest American debunkers. Even while arguing that Freud was a liar and that some of his ideas did not arise from clinical observations but instead were lifted from "folklore," Crews grows cautious about the prospect of a world suddenly without Freud or his methods: "Those of us who are concerned about pointing out Freud...
Indeed, several professors, as well as ProvostJerry R. Green and Dean of Undergraduate EducationLawrence Buell, say they have experienced suchdreams of failure before an audience--oftencomposed of the harshest critics of all, their ownstudents...
Some of the report's harshest words were reserved for Pierre R. Voss, who had charged he was discriminated against and harassed on the job. The report charged that Voss "has used unfounded complaints of racism with management and in the student press for personal advantage, and as a means of undermining [security supervisor Donald P.] Behenna...
...northeast border region around Narva, where ethnic Russians constitute 95% of the population, local Russians plan to hold a plebiscite this week on the question of regional autonomy -- a move the Estonians have denounced as "unconstitutional." Western governments have voiced concern about growing discrimination against minorities. But the harshest rebuke has come from Moscow, where Foreign Minister Andrei Kozyrev denounced the law as "quiet apartheid" and "ethnic cleansing in white gloves...
...Harvard men's and women's tennis teams established one thing this season: pre-season expectations--whether from the programs' harshest critics or their most loyal boosters--are about as worthwhile as Expos...