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Articles by Frederick C. Crews
A Shower of Lies: Spanier, Sandusky and the Mess at Penn State
You remember Jerry Sandusky, right? He’s the former Penn State assistant football coach and pedophilic monster who started a foundation, The Second Mile, in order to gain sexual access to prepubescent boys, hundreds of whom he molested, until eight heroic ones stepped forward to tell a jury about their ordeals in 2012, resulting in the sixty-eight-year-old Sandusky’s thirty-to-sixty-year prison term.
The Pooh Perplex
Frederick Crews Frederick Crews 164 pages | 9 line drawings | 5-1/4 x 8 | © 1963, 2003 Paper $16.00 ISBN: 9780226120584 Published February 2003 For sale only in the United States, its dependencies, the Philippines, and Canada In this devastatingly funny classic, Frederick Crews skewers the ego-inflated pretensions of the schools and practitioners of literary criticism popular in the 1960s, including Freudians, Aristotelians, and New Critics.
Domestic Manners | Frederick C. Crews
Most serious writers who work from an experience outside the main areas of strife in our society find themselves adopting an attitude of weary sarcasm toward the blandness of present-day American life.
“What Do I Think? I Have No Idea”:
“What Do I Think? I Have No Idea”: Jerry Sandusky and the Gladwell Effect Frederick Crews The essay that follows was rejected or ignored by many online editors. As one of them stated, the name Sandusky is still “radioactive.” Don your biohazard suit, then, before entering these pages. But if you find the argument convincing, please tell others. A herd mentality sent an innocent man to prison. If there is any hope for his release, there will have to be a counter-contagion of independent thinking.
Pop goes the critic
Leslie A. Fiedler. Photo: Nationaal Archief Leslie Fiedler we have always with us. For roughly two decades now he has been intellectually stagnant and muddled, prolifically redundant, obsessed with shoring up his ever more dubious fame, pitching one-liners to an empty house. It would be a kindness if he were to declare a moratorium on self-promotion, but nothing appears less likely.
The Freud Question: An Exchange
Frederick Crews, in the second part of his essay titled “Physician, Heal Thyself” [NYR, October 13] cites Freud’s letter to his fiancée: “You’ll be fed [gefüttert] with cocaine and will have to give me a kiss at every resting place.” Crews comments: “Freud’s use of the verb for giving fodder to an animal hinted at an insecure and coercive approach to his beloved.
Trial by Therapy: The Jerry Sandusky Case Revisited
“It was incredibly difficult for some of them to unearth long-buried memories of the shocking abuse they suffered at the hands of this defendant.” —Pennsylvania’s Attorney General Linda Kelly after the Sandusky guilty verdict In June 2012, the 68-year-old Jerry Sandusky, for three decades a successful and admired assistant to Pennsylvania State University’s legendary football coach, Joe Paterno, was found guilty on 45 counts of child molestation and was remanded to prison for, effectively,...
Skeptic " eSkeptic " January 3, 2018
We are aware of the sensitive nature of the subject of this review and the book itself, given the fact that the sexual molestation of children is a real and troubling problem. And we cannot comment on whether or not Jerry Sandusky is innocent, inasmuch as the legal system is designed not to prove innocence but to find someone either guilty beyond a reasonable doubt or not guilty.
Return of The Freud Wars
In writing for Robert Silvers over a fifty-three-year span, from 1964 until shortly before his death last spring, I was awestruck by his critical focus on every submitted paragraph. Bob never required agreement with his views, but he demanded close analysis, independent thought, and attentiveness to possible objections. The Review will be hard pressed to match his brilliant and tireless editing.
Freud’s Clay Feet
Frederick Crews has a loyalty of preoccupation rare in a literary academic. His attacks on Sigmund Freud began way back in the mid-1970s with his publicly proclaimed conversion away from the Freudian literary criticism he practiced at the time. Since then his assault has drawn sustenance from a variety of revisionist Freud sleuths and scholars.
How Sigmund Freud Tried to Break and Remake His Fiancée
When Sigmund Freud and his fiancée Martha Bernays were apart, as they were for most of their four and a half year-long engagement, they corresponded at a rate that would have put any epistolary novelist to shame.
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Tina Fey to Boss Around a Bunch of People on Great News
Have you heard the news? Great News is pretty great! And it’s about to get a lot … greater. (We’ll think of a more inspired joke another time.) Tina Fey, who executive produces the NBC sitcom, will be recurring throughout the upcoming season as the new boss of the fictional news network MMN, which is the primary setting for the series.
Death Wish Trailer: Bruce Willis Goes on a Killing Spree
Come for the vigilante remake, stay for Bruce Willis’s chilling finger-gun salute. Eli Roth cordially presents the first trailer for his take on Death Wish, with Willis starring as a Chicago doctor whose life gets turned into smithereens when a gang murders his wife and rapes his daughter in their home.
Sarah Huckabee Sanders Gets the Impersonation Treatment
With Mario Cantone’s stint as impersonating The Mooch sadly not getting the longevity it deserves (hey, that’s politics!), The Mindy Project’s Fortune Feimster is now carving out her own niche to impersonate another member in Trump’s administration: Sarah Huckabee Sanders, y’all. And what do you know?
GBBO Winner Candice Brown on What It’s Like to Film the Show
Looking back, that magnificent marzipan peacock showstopper said it all. Tonight on PBS, Candice Brown was crowned this season’s winner of The Great British Baking Show — or, as the Brits would say with an eye roll to us Yanks, The Great British Bake Off — breezing through her last three “Royal” challenges that culminated in an epic picnic fit for Queen Elizabeth II herself.
Robert Pattinson Was ‘Joking’ About Dog Sex Act in Good Time
Robert Pattinson would like for everyone to know that nobody behind the scenes of his new movie Good Time wanted the actor to actually give a dog a good time, or come close to bestiality in anyway. “The story I told on Jimmy Kimmel last night seems to have spiraled out of control,” he said in a statement.
The Great British Baking Show Recap: Je Ne Sais Cake
The bad news is that it’s the semi-final, which means we’ve only got one more episode left this season. Yes, we’re down to just Andrew, Jane, Selasi, and Candice in the eerily empty tent. The good news is that it’s Patisserie Week, emboldening Mel and Sue to break out their Franglish and their Pepé Le Pew accents. The signature challenge requires the contestants to bake 24 palmiers — it’s a palm-shaped French pastry — in two different shapes and with two different savory fillings.
Colbert Noticed That Trump Is On a 17-day Vacation
TONIGHT: Stephen wishes the President well as he leaves the "dumpy" White House and begins a 17-day summer vacation in New Jersey. #LSSC pic.twitter.com/0uoizGTYDu — The Late Show (@colbertlateshow) August 4, 2017 Given all of Donald Trump’s latest accomplishments, it’s time the country’s boss got a little rest in relaxation at the golf course, for a change. While the president is on his 17-day vacation, the dump he’s been forced to live in (a.k.a. the White House) is getting a face lift.
This Is Us Is No Longer an Emmy Nominee for Best Costumes
Today the Television Academy announced that it has revoked This Is Us’s Emmy nomination for outstanding contemporary costumes. According to Variety, the decision came after reviewing the submitted episode, the season finale, “Moonshadow.” However that beautiful piece of television left academy watchers feeling, it couldn’t overcome the fact that the signature time-jumps interfered with official qualifications.
Neil Young Is Making an Archive of Every Song He’s Recorded
Neil Young has an incredible catalog to his name with over three dozens albums spanning the past five decades—and that’s just the music he’s released. Now the prolific singer-songwriter wants to make those hours (and hours, and hours) of listening available to you through the internet with an online archive. “I must admit I built this for myself as much as for everyone else,” Young wrote in a note on the unfinished site.
All the GIFs You Need From Jay-Z’s Friends Parody
Jay-Z’s ambitions for his 4:44 rollout are so big, he’s recruited an all-star cast of black actors to make their own version of Friends. The video for “Moonlight,” out today, recreates season 3’s “The One Where No One’s Ready,” until it swerves into meta-commentary. Master of None’s Alan Yang directed the video, which makes sure to cover everything from the moment Joey eats fat, to that iconic dance in the fountain during the opening credits.
Jay-Z’s New Video Stars Your Faves in a Black Friends Parody
For Jay-Z’s latest example of black excellence, he’s re-cast Friends as a black parody turned horror movie about black exploitation.
Isabelle Huppert Joins Matthew Weiner’s Series The Romanoffs
In a bit of news that feels more like a Friday afternoon hallucination than the truth, Amazon has announced the cast for its upcoming series The Romanoffs. The “contemporary anthology series” will look at the lives of separate individuals across the world who all believe they are descendants of the storied Russian royal family.
Which Cersei Lannister Is the Best?
For the few characters who live long enough to survive several seasons on Game of Thrones, change is inevitable. Daenerys has gone from a naïve girl with an arranged marriage to the Mother of Dragons; Arya went from a cute child to a face-shifting assassin; Sansa turned from a true Lannister believer to an abused political hostage to the Queen of the North. More than any other GOT character, though, that tendency to evolve is especially true of Cersei Lannister.
Best Dystopian Hair Moments From ’90s Handmaid’s Tale Movie
From TV to books to movies, dystopian tales are in the air right now. All week long, Vulture is exploring how dystopias have been imagined in popular culture. Some dystopian films have totalitarian governments. Some feature villainous technology. Others have perms. Volker Schlöndorff’s 1990 film adaptation of Margaret Atwood’s seminal novel (with a screenplay by Harold Pinter!) has perhaps the biggest hair in dystopian cinematic history.
8 New Books You Need to Read This August
Each month, Boris Kachka offers nonfiction and fiction book recommendations. You should read as many of them as possible — but only after reading two great August books by our staff: Adam Sternbergh’s absorbing comic dystopian thriller The Blinds and Carolyn Murnick’s memoir The Hot One, about a friend who drifted away and was later murdered. Lights On, Rats Out, by Cree LeFavour (Grove, Aug.
Mark Boal on Why He Wrote ‘Detroit’
In the summer of 2014, I went up to Detroit to meet a man who had been very hard to find. He was called Cleveland Larry Reed, a common enough name, but it had taken a researcher several months to dig up a working telephone number. I left a few messages. When I finally got him on the phone, he wasn’t sure he wanted to see me, let alone talk about 50 years ago. I promised that I wouldn’t waste his time, and he eventually let me into his apartment.
Freud’s Influence | by Eli Zaretsky
I suppose that with recent political events in the United States it has become possible to believe that a complete fraud and mountebank could achieve worldwide status by manipulating public opinion. However, this is not the case with Sigmund Freud, Frederick Crews writes in “Freud: What’s Left?” [NYR, February 23]. Anyone who studies twentieth-century history soon realizes that psychoanalysis is one of the few great success stories of the century.
The Mindsnatchers | Frederick C. Crews
According to a Time/CNN poll published a year ago, 64 percent of Americans now believe that creatures from elsewhere in the universe have recently been in personal touch with human beings.1 One such mortal, Whitley Strieber, writes that he has “received nearly a quarter of a million letters claiming contact” in the past eleven years alone.
The Revenge of the Repressed | Frederick C. Crews
Throughout the past decade or so, a shock wave has been sweeping across North American psychotherapy, and in the process causing major repercussions within our families, courts, and hospitals. A single diagnosis for miscellaneous complaints—that of unconsciously repressed sexual abuse in childhood—has grown in this brief span from virtual nonexistence to epidemic frequency.
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