premise: It makes absolutely no difference to me , " P. bristled . " De Man 's one of the fairest and most - decent men I ' ve met here . Besides , if you want anti - Semitism , my first week in grad school , a Sterling Fucking Professor Emeritus of Romance Languages complained in a class how they were admitting too many ' New York Jews ' . What may be the reason for P. being bristled ?
hypothesis: Someone called him a New York Jew .