Serious academic novels

[Paul Mackin]

> From: LARSSON at VAX1.Mankato.MSUS.EDU
> 
> It is so easy to satirize academia that it is hard to find versions that
> are fairly straightforward, but there are things like Bellows' THE DEAN'S
> DECEMBER.  I'd pretty much given up on Saul by the time he wrote this,
> though.


Not a bad example, Don. Didn't a lot of the novel take place behind the
Iron Curtain or included Eastern Europe types?  Not so much occasion for
frivolity THERE. The "hard" sciences were considered incorruptible. At one
point
the Dean used that funny word "bedizen", which someone hurled against
someone else in our own pages recently and then had cause to regret it. :-)

			P.

P.S. Said funny word just went through the spellchecker without protest.