Thursday PM   

You probably have a favorite poem or two or twelve that have stayed with you like a loyal friend over the years. Would you like to share these with like-minded classmates? Read them out loud? Discuss what they meant and still mean to you? Hear what others have for favorite poems and what they mean to them? We will loosely divide our favorites into subgroups such as: poems that entrance, poems that teach, poems that protest, poems that intoxicate, poems that soothe broken hearts, poems that delight. No one’s a poetry expert! We’re just sharing what we love.

New in-person course. Format includes discussion.

Was “Tinker, Tailor” too slow? Was Burton in “Spy … from Cold” too robotic? Were the “Bourne’s” and “Mission: Impossible’s” too beyond Superman? How about we watch six of the following at home (we’ll choose together after you sign up) while perusing the questions/issues I send, and freely comment in Zoom class on some more agreeable and believable cloak-and-dagger-related movies (with IMDb ratings): Spy Among Friends [7.7]; Skyfall [7.8]; The Conversation [7.7]; Imitation Game [8.0]; Bridge of Spies [7.6]; Notorious [7.9]; Casino Royale [8.0]; Hunt for Red October [7.5]; Munich [7.5]; No Way Out [7.1]. (Disclaimer: Preparation for a future American Stasi is not implied.) New remote course. Format includes lecture, discussion, and film.

None of us OLLI folk are old enough to remember the 1920s, but our parents likely could have told us a lot. Do you remember these names — Ethel Waters, Fannie Brice, Al Jolson, Bessie Smith, Rudy Vallee and Mae West? If not, you’ll hear about them and others in class. We’ll explore the music, movies and culture of that “roaring” decade. By way of lecture, discussion, lots of videos and live music we’ll discover what it was like to have lived back then. We might even do the Charleston.

Repeat in-person course. Format includes lecture, discussion, and watching film.