Word: professor
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...Poor Professor Handlin--his true life's work has been abused and distorted by faction writers. Mario Puzo, author of Fortunate Pilgrim, betrayed the historical method in fabricating "the shiny Godfarther" less than ten years later. And television, that boxed perpetrator of evil, flaunts docudramas such as "Washington Behind Closed Doors," and "Truman at Potsdam...
...away, professors' number one potty choice is The New York Times. Sidney Verba, chairman of the Government Department, and Harvey C. Mansfield, professor of Government, may not agree on grading policies but they agree that all the news that's fit to print is adequate restroom reading...
...Warren E.C. Wacker, director of the University Health Services and Oliver Professor of Hygiene, lives up at South House. Sometimes, he says, the papers don't make it up there in time. "If they do," he adds, "I read them--including The Crimson." If they don't come, however, Wacker says "one still has to while away the time": he's currently at work on "Paul Scott's thing about India...
Some prefer literature to current events. Albert B. Lord, Porter Professor of Slavic and Comparative Literature, reads "a variety of things, but at the moment I'm reading some Bulgarian short stories partly because of a paper I'm writing on fantasy and the occult." That's fine for a scholarly mood, but for light reading, Lord likes "mostly detective stories--occasionally science fiction...
Donald L. Fanger, professor of Slavic and Comparative Literature, hit the floor after hearing the question. "I'm not used to making public confessions of that sort," he blushed. But then he opted for a "professorial comment." "It's always seemed that the bathroom might be the ideal setting for Finnegan's Wake," he surmised. "In my experience, Finnegan's Wake is best approached in short takes rather than in long segments...