Word: mendelsohn
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...losers in a faculty vote almost as much as they like his openmindedness. "He's definitely not a great radical innovator, but he clearly wants to get things done," says one CUE undergraduate. "He's an administration man -- not the same kind of gadfly as a Walzer or a Mendelsohn -- but not as objectionably so as some people either. He seems to feel that things can be changed around here...
Only one professor, Everett Mendelsohn, seriously addressed the Union demands. Not once in the meeting was the Union mentioned by name by a Faculty member. At 6 p.m., the moment to terminate or extend debate, the Faculty packed up and went home. It could not be more clear that it doesn't really give a damn, and will gladly leave the graduate students to the administration so long as Faculty members still have the same number of graduate students to do their research...
...point, however, Buckholz's bad angel has led him into a region of formidable murk. The stated business of the novel is nothing less than a search for the Unholy Grail-the pewter cup, Buckholz imagines, from which Judas drank at the Last Supper. The searchers are Matthew Mendelsohn, a 33-year-old former New York state senator, and Lise, a moonstruck German beauty. For three years they have excavated the beaches and caves of Ibiza -Lise because she believes with the force of mania that the cup is there, Matthew because he believes serenely in nothing...
...worse books have been written for better motives, however, and despite the overcomplicated substructure, Buckholz's novel is an intermittent delight. The author is the best free-associating baloney stuffer since Richard Condon got tired. Matthew Mendelsohn's lies are good lies indeed -grossly outrageous and very funny. There is the lie of the Jewish Miss Universe, the lie of Matthew's buddy's on-the-battlefield commission, the truly evil-minded lie of Rosa the Kisser. Each is an authentic zircon, guaranteed to scratch cheese, free of defects for 90 days, less parts and labor...
Earlier in the week some of the scientists, including Mendelsohn, went to the White House and attempted to speak with a member of the national security office in order to find out what the rationale for the bombing was. Unable to see any staff members, the scientists turned in a petition condemning the bombing written by Wald and signed by several hundred AAAS members to the White House mail room...