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Civil rights advocates were dismayed at the decision, which they saw as another attempt to water down legal remedies against inequality. "This case may encourage unwarranted defiance of judicial authority in civil rights matters," observed Harvard University law professor Laurence Tribe. Added ) Cornell University law professor Steven Shiffrin: "There is no place for deference to the legislative process when it does not act in good faith." But Peter Chema, one of the targeted Yonkers council members, was jubilant. "This is a democracy," he declared, "and an elected official's vote is sacred...
...Nancy Shiffrin, 33, a California writer, always had trouble finishing books and articles. But unlike most authors bedeviled by blocks, she now knows where her troubles began: in the 17th century. During a session with Morris Netherton, a Los Angeles therapist, she had a vision of herself as a woman on trial in America in 1677 for heresy and trying to hide an incriminating diary from her inquisitors. Three hundred years later she was still "hiding the book." But no more. After Netherton's therapy, she says: "I seem to have very little problem finishing up things...
...Shiffrin is one of many devotees of a growing fad known as "past-lives therapy." Essentially, its practitioners take a conventional Freudian idea-that much adult behavior is unconsciously guided by early traumas-and apply it to the concept of reincarnation. Although the treatment has had a following in the U.S. and Europe for at least 15 years, more and more Americans are experimenting with the notion that their psychological problems arose during previous existences as, say, Shinto priests, Roman guards, citizens of Atlantis or even another planet...
Black-Eyed Susan (by A. B. Shiffrin) showed what can be achieved, with a little real effort, in the way of topnotch vulgarity. All about a young wife's seduction of a neurologist, it pawed and lipsmacked its way through a torrential downpour of double-entendres. The tone, here and there, was no worse than sniggering...
...Shiffrin has written a bad comedy. In giving the theatre one black eye, however, he has managed to keep the other sharply trained on the type of humor which seems to have the most commercial appeal...