Word: hesford
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...months ago things were looking pretty grim for Walter Hesford, a graduate student in American literature who'd just finished up a 516-page thesis on Thoreau. Hesford had started looking for a teaching job almost two years before, but so far almost 100 letters to schools as far away as Nigeria had managed to turn up only a thick stack of rejections. The months dragged on, and Hesford conscientiously saved his rejection letters, took to drinking paper cupfuls of Mogen David wine during undergraduate tutorials and waited for Commencement. Then came a break--an offer from Birzelt College...