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Professor on Professor Violence…

… can be ugly. Some of these details may be difficult for more sensitive viewers.

But if you’re not that sensitive, read on.

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UD‘s alma mater, by the way, is getting quite the gold-plated reputation.

Remember M. Todd Henderson?

And in Ravelstein, Saul Bellow immortalized Allan Bloom:

[Nobody had ever questioned Ravelstein’s] need for Armani suits or Vuitton luggage, for Cuban cigars, unobtainable in the U.S., for the Dunhill accessories, for solid-gold Mont Blanc pens or Baccarat or Lalique crystal to serve wine in — or to have it served… [At Lucas-Carton restauarant we were] attended by no fewer than four waiters. The sommelier, wearing his badge of office on a chain of keys, supervised the filling of the glasses. For each course there was an appropriate wine, while other waiters working like acrobats reset the china and the silver.

Margaret Soltan, July 11, 2011 6:35AM
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5 Responses to “Professor on Professor Violence…”

  1. Dave Stone Says:
    July 11th, 2011 at 8:03AM

    Clearly these are substandard economists. You can get a bottle of the stuff for $140. A GOOD economist would buy two bottles for $280, avoid the sales tax, pay an obsequious grad student $120 for some fawning, and STILL come out $300 ahead. And no tip.

  2. Dave Stone Says:
    July 11th, 2011 at 8:24AM

    Sip my 2004 pinot noir
    In some northeastern DC dive boir?
    Guess you haven’t heard
    (as I flip you the bird)
    I’m a rising political stoir.

  3. Dave Stone Says:
    July 11th, 2011 at 4:03PM

    You can’t make this stuff up–I just received an email from Paul Ryan, the man himself, urging me to join him an effort to ensure that “government lives within its means.”

    My last comment on this posting, I promise.

  4. Bill Gleason Says:
    July 11th, 2011 at 7:46PM

    Paul Ryan – you mean the $350 bottle of wine guy?

    http://huff.to/nCuNpR

  5. University Diaries » As with Newt’s Diamonds… Says:
    July 12th, 2011 at 8:45AM

    […] so with Paul’s two wine bottles, it’s the object that counts. Like it or not, human beings glomb onto things. When it comes […]

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