Date: Tue, 20 Mar 2001 16:45:08 -0500 (EST) From: Orpheus <cwduff-AT-alcor.concordia.ca> Subject: NYTimes.com Article: Rocks, Pebbles and Edward Said (fwd) ---------- Forwarded message ---------- Date: Sat, 17 Mar 2001 22:34:03 -0500 (EST) From: nourig-AT-hotmail.com To: cwduff-AT-alcor.concordia.ca Subject: NYTimes.com Article: Rocks, Pebbles and Edward Said This article from NYTimes.com has been sent to you by nourig-AT-hotmail.com. to be continued /-------------------- advertisement -----------------------\ Let NYTimes.com Come to You Sign up for one of our weekly e-mails and the news will come directly to you. YOUR MONEY brings you a wealth of analysis and information about personal investing. CIRCUITS plugs you into the latest on personal technology. TRAVEL DISPATCH offers you a jump on special travel deals and news. http://email.nytimes.com/email/email.jsp?eta5 \----------------------------------------------------------/ Rocks, Pebbles and Edward Said To the Editor: I was delighted to learn that the Freud Society of Vienna took a moral stand and canceled the invitation to Prof. Edward Said of Columbia University to lecture on Freud in Austria ("A Stone's Throw Is a Freudian Slip," Arts & Ideas pages, March 10). The photograph accompanying the article of Mr. Said hurling a rock at Israeli border soldiers shows a reprehensible act. Mr. Said's assertion that he was throwing "a pebble" was clearly contradicted by the photograph of a big rock positioned in his hand. As a professor at Columbia, Mr. Said is a role model to thousands of students, and he has a particular responsibility to conduct himself accordingly. America thrives on its tradition of expressing divergent political views without recourse to violence. As an American citizen teaching at a distinguished institution, Mr. Said should follow this dictum. GAIL KAPLAN GUTTMAN Scarsdale, N.Y., March 10, 2001 • To the Editor: Re "A Stone's Throw Is a Freudian Slip" (Arts & Ideas pages, March 10): The withdrawal of an invitation to Edward Said, the Columbia University professor, by the Freud Society of Vienna to speak on the occasion of Freud's birthday this May is an act well described by Mr. Said as "outrageous," given his eminence as a commentator on contemporary intellectual culture. That he is also an articulate and influential spokesman for Palestinian rights — and that he was moved to throw a stone across the Lebanese-Israeli border at the emotional moment of Israel's withdrawal after 22 years — apparently made him unsuited to commemorate the revolutionary influence and the Near Eastern fascinations of Vienna's most famous political exile. Surely Freud, the man who identified the sources of the ethnic violence by which both his own life and Mr. Said's have been shattered, would see the irony. DOUGLAS DAVIS Haverford, Pa., March 11, 2001 • To the Editor: Re "A Stone's Throw Is a Freudian Slip" (Arts & Ideas pages, March 10): It was odious to read of Edward Said's response to the decision by the Freud Society of Vienna to cancel his lecture. "Freud was hounded out of Vienna because he was a Jew," he said. "Now I am hounded out because I'm a Palestinian." Mr. Said is perfectly aware that his lecture was canceled not because of his national origin but rather for his apparent advocacy of violence by being photographed throwing a rock at Israeli targets (an act he transmogrifies into a "symbolic gesture of joy"). After all, he was initially invited to speak with the Freud Society's full knowledge of his Palestinian roots. CRAIG BORISON Santa Clara, Calif., March 10, 2001 http://www.nytimes.com/2001/03/13/opinion/L13SAI.html?searchpv=site04?ex=985886443&ei=1&en=8bfee40be747862f /-----------------------------------------------------------------\ Visit NYTimes.com for complete access to the most authoritative news coverage on the Web, updated throughout the day. Become a member today! It's free! http://www.nytimes.com?eta \-----------------------------------------------------------------/ HOW TO ADVERTISE --------------------------------- For information on advertising in e-mail newsletters or other creative advertising opportunities with The New York Times on the Web, please contact Alyson Racer at alyson-AT-nytimes.com or visit our online media kit at http://www.nytimes.com/adinfo For general information about NYTimes.com, write to help-AT-nytimes.com. Copyright 2001 The New York Times Company
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