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Justine K. Lelchuk, another one of the first-year Business School students who dined at Stevenson’s home, said the dinner was “a seamless night in terms of good food and great conversation,” describing the three course catered dinner as “a smorgasbord of delicious food...
...Lelchuk, who also helped organize the series, added that the dinners were a great opportunity for students to get to know alumni outside of recruitment and classroom settings...
Ground zero is Boston and its environs, which Lelchuk turns into a combination Sodom and St. Petersburg on the eve of the Russian Revolution. His characters even faction off nicely into modern American equivalents of Mensheviks, Bolsheviks and Nihilists, with Lenny Pincus, a subway Trotsky from Brooklyn, hopelessly trying to keep two feet in all three camps...
Pincus is an ex-student at Cardoza College (read Brandeis, where Lelchuk teaches English). But the first half of the book belongs to Pincus' former teacher Bernard Kovell, the school's 35-year-old humanities dean. By day Kovell is the model liberal, upholding the life of the mind and responsibility to the commonweal. By night he juggles his "family" of six girl friends. Most of the girls have an illustrative neurosis. But after more than 100 pages of Kovell's describing his curative powers in tedious Deep Throat detail, it is time to reconsider H.L. Mencken...
...next step for Pincus and his guerrilla band of young suburban terrorists and ghetto scholarship dropouts is to kidnap ten of the nation's leading intellectuals. Here Lelchuk plays it safe by identifying them only as A, B, C, D, E, F, G, H, I and Kovell. The plan is to "de-mandarinize" the elders at a secret New Hampshire hideout. This promising situation is not fulfilled with much imagination or wit. Pincus' fate is equally drab: prison, where he is reduced to suffering from a chronic earache...