By Stefan Kanfer
Minding the Campus
/"I expect you'll be becoming a schoolmaster, sir. That's what most
of the gentlemen does, sir, that gets sent down for indecent behavior."/
- Evelyn Waugh, /Decline and Fall/, 1928
Those were the days. A novelist could teach for a year or two and emerge with enough satire to fill a library. Alas, the Academy has grown more ludicrous and exaggerated with each succeeding generation and is now almost beyond parody. Today, all a smart writer has to do, in Emily Dickinson's memorable phrase, is tell the truth but tell it slant.
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