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DeLillo has a knack for faculty follies. The school is well known for its department of Hitler studies, headed by Jack ("J.A.K.") Gladney, the novel's narrator. Students are also offered courses in popular culture, seminars in car crashes and cereal-box texts, a professor named Alfonse ("Fast Food") Stompanato and a teaching staff of New York emigres, "smart, thuggish, movie- mad, trivia-crazed . . . here to decipher the natural language of the culture, to make a formal method of the shiny pleasures they'd known in their Europe- shadowed childhoods...
After District 65 of the United Auto Workers championed Gladney's cause--threatening to file suit with the National Labor Relations Board--the 55-year-old projectionist quietly assumed a new post in the Med School's mailroom...
Across the river, Benjamin Gladney, the popular Medical School media technician who found out in May he would be replaced by an automatic system in May, turned off his projector for good this summer...
Across the river, Benjamin Gladney, the popular Medical School media technician who found out in May he would be replaced by an automatic system in May, turned off his projector for good this summer...
After District 65 of the United Auto Workers championed Gladney's cause--threatening to file suit with the National Labor Relations Board--the 55-year-old projectionist quietly assumed a new post in the Med School's mailroom...