From pericles@temple.edu Sun Jul 29 07:01:14 2001 Received: from mxu3.u.washington.edu (mxu3.u.washington.edu [140.142.33.7]) by lists.u.washington.edu (8.11.2+UW01.01/8.11.2+UW01.04) with ESMTP id f6TE1C0128196 for ; Sun, 29 Jul 2001 07:01:12 -0700 Received: from femail17.sdc1.sfba.home.com (femail17.sdc1.sfba.home.com [24.0.95.144]) by mxu3.u.washington.edu (8.11.2+UW01.01/8.11.2+UW01.04) with ESMTP id f6TE1CX11407 for ; Sun, 29 Jul 2001 07:01:12 -0700 Received: from temple.edu ([24.37.50.60]) by femail17.sdc1.sfba.home.com (InterMail vM.4.01.03.20 201-229-121-120-20010223) with ESMTP id <20010729140108.YUOA3370.femail17.sdc1.sfba.home.com@temple.edu> for ; Sun, 29 Jul 2001 07:01:08 -0700 Message-ID: <3B641763.3F44CE8B@temple.edu> Date: Sun, 29 Jul 2001 10:02:10 -0400 From: Dan Tompkins Reply-To: pericles@temple.edu X-Mailer: Mozilla 4.61 (Macintosh; U; PPC) X-Accept-Language: en MIME-Version: 1.0 To: classics@u.washington.edu Subject: Turner Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit I relayed the Ted Turner letter to my college classmates, as part of a chat about the relationship between choice of major and what happens in later life. Here is a response from a very successful and tough Chicago attorney-a guy who once shut down grain shipments to USSR to get a refusenik out. I like it that guys like this respect our field: "Dan: Observing the way Ted Turner turned out, my guess is that he did not study the classics. If he had he wouldn't be quite such an arrogant ass, wouldn't have let a lady like Jane get away, and wouldn't have sold his soul and his company to the media moguls in New York. I believe much of what we are is what we've read---I don't think Ted has read much more than his Ecy.101." -- Daniel P. Tompkins Director, Intellectual Heritage Program Temple University 214 Anderson Hall, 1114 West Berks Street Philadelphia, PA 19122-6090 215/204 4900; 215/204-2359 (fax) pericles@temple.edu Check our website: http://courses.temple.edu/ih View the covers of the new IH readers: http://198.4.155.28/covers/temple51.html http://198.4.155.28/covers/temple52.html .