Week 1: Introductory session - Tuesday 22 September There will be an extended discussion about the nature and purpose of the course, its etiquette and expectations, and the ambitions and preoccupations of the group.
None of this is what I expected when I first arrived to interview the 53-year-old director, bristling with preoccupations about a ballet institution that was funded by gambling, car racing and tax exiles.
I assumed my interview would be cancelled, as the general would have other preoccupations.
Week 1: Introductory motivational workshop - Tuesday 8th September There will be an extended discussion about the nature and purpose of the course, its etiquette and expectations, and the ambitions and preoccupations of the group.
George Oduch's booklet provided a list of homosexual acts which, in its scatological preoccupations, bore a closer resemblance to the writings of the Marquis de Sade than a Christian treatise.
When they were starting out, their material was fuelled by their own preoccupations: teenage lust, getting that elusive girl to fancy you, hanging out with your mates.
Related: Baileys women's prize for fiction longlist - in pictures Another of the novel's preoccupations is surveillance and spying.
That appearance set out the preoccupations he was to explore in a dozen magnificent books.
His sexual preoccupations appear to belong to an antediluvian, pre-internet age of almost innocent prurience.
Mr Brown has his admirable preoccupations: to wean the unemployed off welfare and into work, to make work pay, to increase educational opportunity.
The message seems to be that war elsewhere and economic turmoil may be the current preoccupations, but America's future environment will be shaped in Asia.Besides, it is always good to go where you are welcome.
