Robert Coles, professor of Psychiatry and never one known to tackle questions in a small or simple way, decided, after rummaging around in his library and some deliberation, simply to recommend his five favorite books of all-time:
* Little Dorrit; by Charles Dickens;
* The Habit of Being,by Flannery O'Connor;
* Collected Stories, by O'Connor;
* The Second Coming, by Walker Percy;
* Collected Stories, by Eudora Welty.
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Associate Dean of the Faculty John E. Dowling '57 reports that he'll spend part of the early summer writing a book review on a work about color vision, but for others, he points to a few works on somewhat broader subjects:
* Life and Times of Einstein, by Ronald W. Clark;
* The Eigth Day of Creation, by H.F. Judson;
* The Origin, by Irving Stone;
* My Life and Hard Times, by James Thurber.
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Just picture this! A sun-baked beach, the spray of the surf, a tall, cool drink, and the suggested reading list of Otto Eckstein. Warburg Professor of Economics.
* The True Believer, by Eric Hoffer;
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