From dgw1@nyu.edu Sun Jul 29 07:28:27 2001 Received: from mxu4.u.washington.edu (mxu4.u.washington.edu [140.142.33.8]) by lists.u.washington.edu (8.11.2+UW01.01/8.11.2+UW01.04) with ESMTP id f6TESQ028666 for ; Sun, 29 Jul 2001 07:28:26 -0700 Received: from e3g1.home.nyu.edu (E3G0.HOME.NYU.EDU [128.122.108.152]) by mxu4.u.washington.edu (8.11.2+UW01.01/8.11.2+UW01.04) with ESMTP id f6TESPs01859 for ; Sun, 29 Jul 2001 07:28:25 -0700 Received: from homemail.nyu.edu (d2 [192.168.78.12]) by e3g1.home.nyu.edu (8.10.1/8.10.1) with ESMTP id f6TESOJ04428 for ; Sun, 29 Jul 2001 10:28:24 -0400 (EDT) From: Diana Wright To: classics@u.washington.edu Message-ID: <2f13332f0271.2f02712f1333@homemail.nyu.edu> Date: Sun, 29 Jul 2001 10:28:24 -0400 X-Mailer: Netscape Webmail MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Language: en Subject: Re: Turner X-Accept-Language: en Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit > > "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 > arrogantass, 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." This is a dear, idealistic soul. I have known more than a few arrogantass-classicists in my time, & a few soul-sellers, & sometimes both in the same individual. Though some of my best friends are classicists, & I wouldn't completely object to my daughters marrying some. DW > -- > 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 > .