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...just an assistant dean gone wrong, and yet not be an attractive person. My first term I audited an English class whose professor, when he found he had not used up as much time as he'd intended, fell back on quoting large chunks of Oedipus at Colonnus in the original Greek; but I decided I didn't like him anyway. It was disillusioning. Similarly I have taken a class by one Nobel prizewinner, and the single moment I enjoyed most in his course was his discomfiture when the rap session into which he had self-consciously turned...
...feel no need to defend the "shattering booms of thunder" with which Mr. Gordon takes issue in Oedipus at Colonnus. They are Sophocles' stage directions...
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