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...clouds on a blissful escalator." Trillin, a strangely appealing mixture of Jewish arriviste and Midwestern hick, entered college without ever having heard of Dostoyevsky or Greenwich, and he figured to stop ascending early in the journey. Denny was expected to keep on climbing. Champion athlete, top-ranking student, Rhodes scholar, subject of a Life magazine piece, he was discussed seriously as a potential candidate for the presidency. Forty years later, after a life of obscurity and pain, the golden boy sat back in a car and inhaled carbon monoxide until his heart stopped...
...like Denny, never found their feet again. His jobs grew less significant, and influential friends dropped away. He never married. At a Big Chill session, one mourner suggests that the deceased had "unreasonably high standards." Another concludes that he was a suppressed homosexual. Still another observes that despite the scholar-athlete's "million-dollar smile," he was an emotional basket case, suffering from clinical depression...
...ornate language which uncannily mimics nineteenth century prose also contributes to this distancing effect. Nailing down the antiquated style presented some difficulties; an Edinburgh scholar of the time period's nonfiction checked Phillips' manuscripts for anachronistic syntax. The language produces an almost surreally understated voice that allows Phillips to write about the horrors of slavery in a eerie, muted fashion. As he says, "you've got all these massive dramas going on--people living in the most unbelievable poverty, people being killed--and [Emily's] writing about it as if it's very polite after dinner conversation...
High-profile feminist scholar and University of Michigan law professor Catharine A. MacKinnon, who was recently under consideration for a tenured position, did not get the required two-thirds majority vote from the faculty...
Harald Saetran, a visiting scholar at the Center for European Studies, says the mud, a sign of the changing seasons, is simply to be expected...