Word: langsam
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...College (Oxford, Mass.), the story concerns people who, when they become head of their department or organization, have their heads and other parts of their bodies lopped off by a devious ax murderer-or murderers. On the squash court of New York's Eli Club, Professor Bertram Langsam loses his head and thumb. Ferdinand Fields, an Episcopal rector partial to horror flicks, is decapitated in the men's room of a Long Island railroad train by a Peruvian sun priestess turned tramp. Whittaker Duchamp, bogus play producer, is more fortunate: he only loses an ear. The bloody trail...
Normally, David Langsam couldn't get an audience of more than 200 people even as president this year of Columbia University's student government...
...Langsam, a 22-year-old veteran of two such congresses who hopes eventually to go into politics, no longer finds the experience "such a great thing." But most delegates say they are "exhilarated" and "educated" by the wide-ranging program offered here--even if they know that much of it, as one radical says, is only "sandbox politics...