Aeschylus-Prometheus Bound, Euripides-Bacchae, Sophocles-Oedipus, Aristophanes-The Frogs, Shakespeare-Coriolanus, Hamlet, Measure for Measure, Othello, Henry IV, Marlowe-Dr. Faustus, Strindberg-Julia, Checkov-Three Sisters, Wilde-Importance of Being Ernest, Becket-Breath, Ionesco-Rhinoceros Films: Bondarchuk's War and Peace, Time Machine, Iphigenia in Aulis, Barefoot in Athens, Wings of Desire, Fight Club, Gandhi, Lord of the Rings, Caesar and Cleopatra, Jason and the Argonauts, Do the Right Thing, Hercules, La Commune, Jesus of Nazareth, The Spanish Prisoner, Edvard Munch, Slaughter House Five, Danton, Germinal, Deja Vu, The Battle of Algiers, Tout va bien, Trainspotting, Brothers Karamazov, The Idiot, Reds, Manhattan, Moses Goes to Catholic School, Arsenic and Old Lace, The Magic Flute (Bergman), Spartacus, October, I Claudius, Life of Brian, Wagner,

Language study, esp. Spanish, French, Turkish, Chinese. Travel, to France, Latin America, Turkey, Russia, China, India, Sri Lanka. Comparative Religion. Greek and Roman History. German Philosophy, esp. Kant, Hegel, Schelling, Heidegger. Symphonic Music: Beethoven, Shubert, Mahler, Bruckner, Shostakovich, Prokofiev