From: Vunch-AT-aol.com
Date: Wed, 24 Feb 1999 00:25:44 EST
Subject: Re: sexual ethics


In a message dated 2/19/99 1:06:09 PM Eastern Standard Time,
mthrond-AT-hotmail.com writes:

> he constantly cites also 
>  Phillip Rieff, who wrote Triumph of the Therapeutic: Uses of Faith after 
>  Freud and Fellow Teachers, a forerunner of Allan Bloom's infamous tirade 
>  "The Closing of Allan Bloom's Mind" (a little joke), roundly criticizing 
>  F.T. in his last book Revolt of the Elites while wheezing in a footnote 
>  that Closing "deserves more attention than it has gotten from the 
>  academic left."

The cryptic 'F.T.' helped make this passage sooo comprehensible!