From pericles@temple.edu Sat Mar 23 18:59:19 2002 Received: from mailscan6.cac.washington.edu (mailscan6.cac.washington.edu [140.142.33.14]) by lists.u.washington.edu (8.12.1+UW01.12/8.12.1+UW02.01) with SMTP id g2O2xHDN021896 for ; Sat, 23 Mar 2002 18:59:18 -0800 Received: FROM mxu1.u.washington.edu BY mailscan6.cac.washington.edu ; Sat Mar 23 18:59:17 2002 -0800 Received: from smtp.comcast.net (smtp.comcast.net [24.153.64.2]) by mxu1.u.washington.edu (8.12.1+UW01.12/8.12.1+UW02.01) with ESMTP id g2O2xGc6009026 for ; Sat, 23 Mar 2002 18:59:17 -0800 Received: from temple.edu (pcp086277pcs.audubn01.nj.comcast.net [68.44.128.201]) by mtaout01.icomcast.net (iPlanet Messaging Server 5.1 (built Feb 6 2002)) with ESMTP id <0GTG00NGIIYS46@mtaout01.icomcast.net> for classics@u.washington.edu; Sat, 23 Mar 2002 21:59:16 -0500 (EST) Date: Sat, 23 Mar 2002 22:00:34 -0500 From: Dan Tompkins Subject: Re: Mediterranean seafaring; Shils To: classics@u.washington.edu Reply-to: pericles@temple.edu Message-id: <3C9D4152.CD182547@temple.edu> MIME-version: 1.0 X-Mailer: Mozilla 4.79 (Macintosh; U; PPC) Content-type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-transfer-encoding: 7BIT X-Accept-Language: en References: <3c9d124c.296090.0@loyno.edu> That is not in the intro, and it is wonderful. Thanks, Dan David Lupher wrote: > > Dan Tompkins wrote: > >By the way, I am currently reading Edward Shils, Portraits. A Gallery of > >Intellectuals. Shils himself, according to the intro by Joseph Epstein, > >found many books tedious. He can be very judgmental. At the same time, > >I'm finding it delightful. I have no Chicago connections, and would be > >interested in hearing from anyone who's got thoughts or comments on Shils. > > Assuming it's not a duplicate of the introduction, I assume that you > would find of interest Epstein's moving memoir of Shils, "My Friend > Edward," the last essay in Epstein's latest (?) collection, "Narcissus > Leaves the Pool: Familiar Essays" (Houghton Mifflin, 1999). In order > to supply some classical content here, I'll add that pp. 309-11 deal > with Shils' and Epstein's friendship with Arnaldo Momigliano. When > Momigliano's heart condition seriously worsened, Shils moved him into > his own apartment and tended him assiduously. Epstein writes: "I > recall Glen Bowersock, a dear friend of Arnaldo's, saying that he had > never seen anything quite like the way Edward looked after Arnaldo--- > usually a lesser man might look after a greater, but here was one > great man extending himself completely for another." > > David Lupher > Classics Dept. > Univ. of Puget Sound -- 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 "No wonder Philadelphia appears to be the one city in the Northeast rebounding with real energy lately." Regina Schrambling, NYT 3/13 .