DS OF HUMOR

A few years before he won the 1976 Nobel Prize for Litera- ture, Saul Bellow was having a hard time of it as a guest at Northern Illinois University in De Kalb. The two English De- partment professors who were supposed to meet him for dinner hadn't shown up, so he stood by himself in the student union, watching a rerun of "Lost in Space" on the lounge TV while several hundred students milled around, wondering who he was. Two hours later, across town, a couple of graduate stu...