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{From the Bell Towers}
Great Books Getaway: Summer Classics 2003 Combine a high desert setting, a city rich in cultural offerings including one of the country’s finest operas, and the chance to study great works by Plato, Tolstoy, and Flannery O’Connor (among others), and you get a vacation opportunity unlike any other. Each year, Summer Classics draws several hundred people who prefer to use their leisure time expanding the mind and edifying the soul,
engaging in thoughtful conversations of great books, and enjoying Santa Fe. Participants choose one seminar per morning or afternoon each week for one to three weeks. Seminars of up to 17 are led by two members of the St. John’s College faculty, guests from other institutions, and alumni. Call 505-984-6104 or e-mail classics@sjcsf.edu. x Tutor Michael Bybee (right) leads a seminar.
This year’s line-up of seminars and tutors: Week 1, July 13-18
Afternoon Session: Nietzsche: Beyond Good and Evil, Victoria Mora and Kent Taylor
Morning Session: Hanna Arendt: The Human Condition, Michael Golluber and Jay Smith
Charles Saunders Pierce: Various works, Michael Bybee and David Carl
Ralph Waldo Emerson: Essays, John Cornell and Richard McCombs
Shakespeare’s sonnets, William Alba and Krishnan Venkatesh
Physics Before the Footlights—Five Plays, Robert Richardson and Gino Thomas
All-participant seminar: Isak Dinesen: “Sorrow-Acre”
Afternoon Session: Galileo: Dialogue Concerning the Two Chief World Systems, Mark Rollins and Caleb Thompson Flannery O’Connor: short stories, Jan Arsenaul and Elizabeth Engel Tolstoy: short stories, James Carey and David Starr All-participant seminar: Francis Bacon: “Of Truth,” “Of Friendship,” and “Of Studies”
Week 2, July 20-25
Week 3, July 27-August 1 Morning Session: Mozart and Offenbach: Opera, William Fulton and Robert Glick Plato: Five short dialogues, James Carey and Frank Pagano Shakespeare: Henry V, Judith Adam and Warren Winiarski (A52)
Afternoon Session: Archimedes, James Forkin and Brendon Lasell
Morning Session:
The Upanishads, Patricia Greer and Claudia Honeywell Strauss: Opera, William Fulton and Timothy Miller George Eliot: Middlemarch, Eva Brann and Janet Dougherty Henry James: The Ambassadors, Victoria Mora and Peter Pesic
Selected works of classic French drama, Michael Bybee and David Carr All-participant seminar: Joseph Conrad: The Secret Sharer
{ T h e C o l l e g e St. John’s College • Spring 2003 }