>The professor, who has been described as "destructively seductive",
Further proof, to quote a British novelist from a very different context, that it's a man's world. To put it kindly, the man is not pleasing to the eye, and wasn't 30 years ago either.
One of my college roommates took a seminar with Bloom. One day, he described a dream he'd had the night before in which he was walking down a hallway lined with doors. Each successive one he opened revealed a successively uglier face, until he opened the last, when he realized the face was his own. He woke up, terrified.
Doug