Word: grubbier
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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Somebody on the Taft University basketball team is shaving points, the rumor goes, and Spenser, the soft-centered hard-guy detective, soon discovers a grubbier scandal. Nobody at Taft will admit it, but the team's star power forward has been passed through his courses for nearly four years despite the fact that he can't read. Spenser is shocked -- he believes in truth, honor and grade-point averages -- and he sets out to discover which lizards, tenured and not, are responsible. The reader puts up his feet and gets comfortable. That's a bad sign. Too much comfort...
...Brooks, a member of the Fly Club, recalls that there was a "tremendous amount of drinking. Not to get drunk, but it seemed that there was a cocktail party every night of the week during the Spring, somewhat reminiscent of Brideshead Revisited." Yale, he says, is, "on the whole grubbier and lacking in that certain elegance and anglophilia that Harvard's always maintained...