What is "bortz"

Usage examples of "bortz".

The editor's preface, signed this time, by one Emory Bortz, professor of English at Cal, mentioned none.

The girl in the English office informed Oedipa that Professor Bortz was no longer with the faculty.

She found Professor Emory Bortz's number in the book and had better luck.

Recognizing with a vague sense of dread that it was not a matter of Bortz's response, or Grace's, but of The Trystero's.

By the time she'd pulled into Bortz's subdivision, a riparian settlement in the style of Fangoso Lagoons, she was only shaking and a little nauseous in the stomach.

The day after reading Blobb's Peregrinations she, with Bortz, Grace, and the graduate students, attended Randolph Driblette's burial, listened to a younger brother's helpless, stricken eulogy, watched the mother, spectral in afternoon smog, cry, and came back at night to sit on the grave and drink Napa Valley muscatel, which Driblette in his time had put away barrels of.

When Bortz asked her one evening if he could bring in D'Amico, who was at NYU, Oedipa told him no, too fast, too nervous.

Even Emory Bortz, with his copy of Blobb's Peregrinations (bought, she had no doubt he'd tell her in the event she asked, also at Zapf's), taught now at San Narciso College, heavily endowed by the dead man.

That Bortz, along with Metzger, Cohen, Driblette, Koteks, the tattooed sailor in San Francisco, the W.

Oedipa gave her name as Grace Bortz and didn't show up for her next appointment.

Reading like another of Bortz's costume dramas, it told of a great schism in the Tristero ranks during the French Revolution.

A number of people, including Mrs Bortz and Sonny Elmquist, had gathered on the pavement to stare into the interior of the building.

The courtyard was empty, but at the gate they encountered Mrs Bortz and the lank young man named Sonny Elmquist.

In the apartment near the gate, where Mrs Bortz lived, they could hear water running and dishes clattering in a sink.

They could hear Mrs Bortz's voice, high and angry, but they couldn't hear what she was saying.