Perhaps there's a thesis here: "The Evolution of the University in the Spenser Novels." Ave atque Vale, Robert B. I found it interesting to compare "Godwulf" with later Spenser books in which college administrations play a significant role-"Playmates," "Hush Money," and "Small Vices" come immediately to mind, and I think there are others. I enjoyed it, but it really is a period piece. In this First Chronicle of Spenser, the erudite but self-educated boxer-turned-cop-turned-tough-PI takes on effete academia at the height of the hell-no-we-won't-go era. I think I may have owned both those items once upon a time, although if I ever wore them together I've repressed the occasion. A college secretary wears a purple suede garment that Spenser notes is "too short to be a skirt and too long to be a belt." She has paired it with a shiny red shirt with wide lapels. The good old days BC (before cell phones), when the left-wingers and not the right-wingers were the ones calling for the overthrow of the government, and ostentatious consumerism was still considered tacky.
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