My kind of guy.

For many years I've quoted Robert M. Hutchins, president of the University of Chicago in the 1940's, and for more than thirty years chairman of the Board of Editors of Encyclopedia Britannica . I'm not sure that I'd see eye to eye with him on everything (I'm for instance, too much of a post-modernist to be [at least publicly] much of a fan of the Great Books program that he initiated), but anybody who can say:

When I feel like exercising I just lie down until the feeling goes away

is somebody I can identify with. I think he was also someone whom I met. Hutchins was a founder of the Center for the Study of Democratic Institutions located in Santa Barbara, California. I well remember that as a teenager in the late 1960's I had the opportunity to participate in a couple of seminars held there, enjoying the atmosphere (large, comfortable chairs around impressive wooden tables in elegant conference rooms), the good food, and the opportunity to hobnob with at least semi-famous people. We young kids weren't the focus of these seminars, but we were treated as equals, and it's my guess that at some point along the line, though I don't have a distinct recollection of this, I was introduced to Hutchins.

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