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...could have read the book by myself, but as any teacher knows, the best way to study a book that deserves careful reading is to teach it. Liberal education joins reading good books in private with conversation about them together in a class. Middlebury College’s winter term offers teachers a perfect opportunity to extend their education...
...came to teach at Middlebury in the fall of 1968, the same academic year the winter term arrived. The 4-1-4 calendar, in which a one-month special term is sandwiched between two four-month regular terms, has been a huge success with students; it is an academic change of pace, and, to paraphrase Marx, they can go to class in the morning, ski in the afternoon and study in the evening. I like winter term because it encourages faculty members to broaden, as well as deepen, their education—to be students as well as scholars. During...
...teach American political thought, constitutional law and political philosophy. During the past 36 years, I have taken advantage of Middlebury’s winter term to study Plato’s Laws, Thucydides, Francis Bacon’s Advancement of Learning, Rousseau’s Emile, the French Revolution, Henry Kissinger, the Puritans, The Education of Henry Adams, Paradise Lost, some Shakespeare plays and criminal justice in America. I have taught many of these courses with other regular and visiting faculty members, including a former student who is a lawyer, and my brother, with whom I enjoyed teaching Shakespeare...
...almost any measure, it was a spectacular week both in Pasadena, where the rover was birthed, and at Gusev Crater, Mars, where it now finds itself. NASA has been in need of redemption since the explosion of the shuttle Columbia last winter, and Spirit--to say nothing of its sister ship, Opportunity, heading for its own Martian touchdown at the end of the month--is it. The space agency's website recorded 1.45 billion hits in just over five days last week. The White House, perhaps sensing an election-year winner, announced that the President would soon deliver a long...
DIED. INGRID THULIN, 77, severe, worldly Swedish actress, who lent her grave glamour to eight Ingmar Bergman films; of cancer; in Stockholm. The cool blond projected a knowing pessimism in Bergman's Wild Strawberries and The Magician, desperate longing in Winter Light and The Silence, and a mutilating self-hatred in Cries and Whispers. Though her one Hollywood film, The Four Horsemen of the Apocalypse, was a flop, she shone as a soulful socialist in Alain Resnais's La Guerre Est Finie and as a Nazi-era matriarch in Luchino Visconti's The Damned...