Harvard gets more than it has bargained for when the faculty hires economist Montgomery Marvin. His Index of Irrational Expectations…
(IRAT) forecasts trends in the stock market so accurately that Montgomery becomes a financial titan. He and his liberal wife Marjie begin using their wealth for good causes, such as underwriting peace chairs at the military academies. It's all too much for Harvard!
In 1925, young Sammy Hoch travels with his parents and sister, Sosh, from Poland to Manchester, England. Sammy, or Titch,…
as his sister lovingly calls him, sees himself as too short, too bookish, too Jewish, and too foreign. After a stint in the British army, Titch gets called up by the Polish army, and confusion and hilarity result. Some strong language and some descriptions of sex