![]() ![]() ![]() The good are saying they'U walk away whUe the mediocre are feverishly guarding their crumbling territory. Everybody is either fiUng a grievance or threatening to file one. Threatened by impending purge, even of tenured members, the faculty is in the tumult of offensive self-defense. 0O) Straight Man by Richard Russo Random House, 1997, 391 pp., $25 The place is an undistinguished college in Pennsylvania, the month is April, the time of paranoia among academics. Alternating between moments of quaint wit and probing philosophy, Horace Afoot will delight the patient reader who realizes that Horace's seemingly misguided wanderings are a direct path to a greater understanding of human intimacy. ![]() In lieu of an abstract, here is a brief excerpt of the content:įeeling that he has changed from the fiercely independent observer who first arrived in ObUvion to a man who appreciates the value of human contact. ![]()
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