Word: cardoza
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Pincus is an ex-student at Cardoza College (read Brandeis, where Lelchuk teaches English). But the first half of the book belongs to Pincus' former teacher Bernard Kovell, the school's 35-year-old humanities dean. By day Kovell is the model liberal, upholding the life of the mind and responsibility to the commonweal. By night he juggles his "family" of six girl friends. Most of the girls have an illustrative neurosis. But after more than 100 pages of Kovell's describing his curative powers in tedious Deep Throat detail, it is time to reconsider H.L. Mencken...