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Olympic Arc

Thomas Becker, president of Chautauqua Institution, on Friday, Aug. 27, 2004:

“I’m really proud of this lecture platform this year.  We started with Phil Wilcox on the first day of the season and finished with Sandra Day O’Connor.  The arc of participation between them was really amazing.”

Phil Wilcox: See 

Israel and Palestine:
Let’s Separate Myth from Reality,
by Philip C. Wilcox, Jr., President,
Foundation for Middle East Peace,
Chautauquan Daily, June 28, 2004

Sandra Day O’Connor: See

The Majesty of the Law:
Reflections of a
Supreme Court Justice,
by Sandra Day O’Connor

The O’Connor link above is to a page at the Chautauqua Bookstore.

For Justice O’Connor:

Reflections on Themis
(Log24, Aug. 17, 2004) 

For Wilcox:

The Zen of Abraham
(Same entry, different title.)

I personally was at Chautauqua only one day this season — Friday, the 13th of August.  My stops of course included the Chautauqua Bookstore, where I purchased the following:

Human cultural activity is mostly what Walker Percy astutely called “symbol-mongering.”  Of the three books above, the central one offers the best symbols.

My own version of a
Chautauqua “Versus” symbol:

The Line,
by S. H. Cullinane

For further details, see the

entries of Aug. 15, 2004.

For an “arc” symbol, see

Loretta’s Rainbow.