Word: demigods
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...only one lunch, and perhaps our professor won't remember our names. But perhaps he'll remember our conversation. I know that my friends and I certainly will. And when we come to his lecture next week, we'll see him differently. Instead of being an unapproachable intellectual demigod, he'll be someone who came to lunch with us last week--and someone who might have lunch with us again...
David Herbert Donald, the highly esteemed historian and author of 1995's Pulitzer Prize winning Lincoln, has fallen victim to that grim disorder that so often strikes Harvard's demigod professors. It's a disorder that most recently befell Fletcher University Professor Cornell R. West '74, with his Cornell West Reader. The disorder: over-inflated ego combined with tremendously juicy publishing deal...