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Currently, Vessenski says, he is studying drama with Lowell Professor of the Humanities William Alfred. In addition, Vessenski says, he has devoted much of his time to writing, and has written fiction in English for the first time. And he says he is thoroughly enjoying himself.
"The supposedly hush-hush Harvard search committee leaked like the Titanic, like the Weld administration even. But it seems even those enterprising young journalists at The Crimson (who were given full credit for their scoop on the Rudenstine story by The New York Times, but not The Boston Globe) missed...
Lowell Professor of the Humanities William Alfred remembers Rudenstine as a skilled literary critic, commenting, "He had a wonderful, subtle sense of what makes a book really a book."
So he invents a MacGuffin, the term Alfred Hitchcock used to describe anything that gives spurious meaning to a plot, or, as Bobbo explains, "whatever got slipped into Cary Grant's pocket without his knowledge or that Jimmy Stewart picked up by mistake when the girl switched briefcases on him...
Lowell Professor of the Humanities William Alfred remembers Rudenstine, a former Rhodes scholar, as a skilled literary critic, commenting, "He had a wonderful, subtle sense of what makes a book really a book."