Marian Miner Cook
Athenaeum

Dinner Theater, "The Mystery of Sir Edwin Drood by Charles Dickens" (1870) (6:00 p.m.)
 

Gerald McDermott, author, Arrow to the Sun: A Pueblo Indian Tale (1977) and Papagayo: The Mischief Maker (1992); "Animated Mythology"
 

Andrew Krepinevich, Jr., assistant to the director, net assessment, Office of the Secretary of Defense; author, "The Army and Vietnam" (1986)
 

Robert Cialdini, Regents professor of psychology, Arizona State University; author, Influence: The Psychology of Persuasion (1993) and Influence: Science and Practice (1993); "Ethical Influence: Bunglers, Smugglers, and Sleuths"
 

Lewis Ellenhorn, clarinet; professor emeritus of psychology, Pitzer College; Harrison Stephens, guitar; Claremont University Center emeritus staff; Dion Sorrell, bass; "Post Modern Jazz" (3:15 p.m.)
 

Ward Elliott, professor of government, CMC; author, Rise of Guardian Democracy: The Supreme Court's Role in Voting Rights Disputes, 1845-1969 (1974); "Who was Shakespeare?" (12:15 p.m.)
 

Joseph Brodsky, Nobel laureate in literature (1987); U.S. poet laureate consultant in poetry to the Library of Congress (1991-92); Andrew W. Mellon professor of humanities, Mount Holyoke College; author, Less Than One: Selected Essays (1986) and A Part of Speech (1981); "A Voice in Exile" (12:15 p.m.)
 

Rodrick Nash, professor of environmental studies, U.C. Santa Barbara; author, Wilderness and the American Mind (1967) and The Rights of Nature: A History of Environmental Ethics (1989); "The American Wilderness: Past, Present, and Future"
 

John Roth, Russell K. Pitzer professor of philosophy and religious studies, CMC; co-author, Approaches to Auschwitz: The Holocaust and Its Legacy (1987) and co-editor, "Different Voices: Women and the Holocaust" (1993) (12:15 p.m.)
 

Robert Dallek, professor of history and public policy, UCLA; author, Lone Star Rising: Lyndon Johnson and His Times, 1908-1960 (1991) and Franklin D. Roosevelt and American Foreign Policy, 1932-1945 (1979); "Splendid Misery: Lyndon Johnson and Vietnam"
 

Carol Tavris, fellow, American Psychological Association; co-author, The Longest War: Sex Differences in Perspective (1984) and author, "The Mismeasure of Women" (1992)
 

Sarah Weddington, professor of government, University of Texas; author, "A Question of Choice" (1992)
 

Richard Benedick, senior fellow, World Wildlife Fund; author, Greenhouse Warming (1991) and Ozone Diplomacy: New Directions in Safeguarding the Planet (1991); "From Montreal to Rio: The New Global Diplomacy"
 

Seymour Martin Lipset, Hazel professor of public policy, George Mason University; author, Consensus and Conflict: Essays in Political Sociology (1985) and Continental Divide: The Values and Institutions of the United States and Canada (1991); "The Meaning of the Turnover from Republicans to Democrats"
 

Vijay Sathe, professor of management, Claremont Graduate School; author, Controller Involvement in Management (1981) and Culture and Related Corporate Realities (1985); "Entrepreneurship in Large Companies: Rhetoric and Reality"