Word: scrut
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Dates: during 1999-1999
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...couple of months ago, the Professor Scrut rose from the grave. Version Three working title: "Professor Houses." We'd publish FM Architectural Digest with luscious photography of the homes of Harvard's most esteemed faculty. They'd welcome us into their Victorian mansions or humble bungalows and give us the full tour from home-office, to library, to master bedroom. We'd wait for the "golden hour" around dinner time to shoot the grounds and the photos would be worthy of Better Homes and Gardens. But all 40 of Harvard's big wigs said no--"no way"-- except Harvey Mansfield...
...story wasn't dead. Not yet. FM's associate editors and a team of all-star writers rushed in with Professor Scrut Version Four, working title "Doing Professor things with Professors." The idea: shop with the shopping professor, cook with the cooking professor, bowl with the bowling professor; whatever. Thanks to six friendly faculty members, the story came back to life--with some creative twists--giving this week's issue its whopping ten-page Scrutiny (starting page...