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<p><P>Beet College is doomed...and nobody really cares. The Board of Trustees, led by developer Joel Bollovate, has squandered the endowment. Debutante-cum-self-styled-poet Matha Polite, an indiscriminate radical with a four-student following, wants to bring the institution down. Sweet-tempered terrorist hopeful Akim Ben Ladin (n&#233; Arthur Horowitz) sits in his off-campus cave and dreams about blowing Beet up. Faculty members are too busy concocting useless, trendy courses to do anything about it. Not to mention that American higher education is going down the tubes, one less lesser school isn't going to matter. So why is Professor Peace Porterfield trying to save Beet? Beats us.</p><h3>The Washington Post - Ron Charles</h3><p>&#8230;an academic satire greased by the kind of insight and rage that could come only from enduring a thousand stultifying faculty meetings&#8230;Of course, the litter of academic satires is already very large. After classics from Kingsley Amis, Vladimir Nabokov, Malcolm Bradbury, Mary McCarthy, Richard Russo, Jane Smiley, Tom Wolfe and others, <i>Beet</i> doesn't break any new ground, but it certainly holds its own in this well-furrowed field. Again and

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Author

Rosenblatt, Roger

Publisher

HarperPerrenial ed

Published

2008

Language

EN

ISBN

9780061344275

Category

work of fiction

Subjects

Literary Fiction, Fiction, Humor

Rating

2.98 / 5 (150 ratings)

Updated

2026-03-14