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...relationship with her mother. But in her new work, Chernin delves into the past not only to achieve a new understanding of herself through the narrative .She acts as both a critical story-teller and a passive character. Writing 20 years later she says," "Memory is a liar, a cheat, a thief, a pirate," which distorts and creates significance out of the past. Indeed, this original approach challenges the way memory, especially memory of oneself, continuously evolves...
...awakening of all the darker people of the world, and we are awakening at the level that the white world is now beginning to decline. And this is what Brother Khallid was talking about in his speech; I could not say he's a liar, ((that)) he's wrong. But this should never be taught out of the spirit of mockery...
...break in my views as a theologian," he says. "It is absolute nonsense to say Vatican II left it up to the individual to decide which religious ideas he would adopt and which he would not." As a participant in the council, "I would be making a liar of myself" to say such a thing...
...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's intellectual failings are not, by and large...
Packwood's undignified tactics upstaged Senators' concerns about Fifth Amendment safeguards against self-incrimination. Instead, many Senators fumed privately that the man who may already have been exposed as a letch, lush and liar was a lout as well. Says an ethics committee staff member: "The fact that ((Packwood)) stood on the Senate floor and issued a not-so-veiled threat against his colleagues has alienated a lot of people." (An unnamed woman, described by her lawyer as "prominent within the country," was equally unhappy, charging that the release of the diaries would cause "irreparable damage" to her reputation...