February 22, 2008

The Sweet Lure of Your Graduate-School Town

By MURRAY SPERBER

When I retired from Indiana University, af-ter teaching there 33 years, my department threw a party and, as part of the festivities, asked me to speak. During my remarks, I outlined my plans: My wife, Aneta, and I had bought a condo in the San Francisco Bay area and expected to live there. In fact, she already had a high-school teaching job, just as when we lived there in the 60s.

I mentioned in my speech that I had spent spring break in California and how, on a beautiful Sunday

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