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...dramaturgy of what happened.” His own thesis—an original script for his play “O O O The Rodeo Show!”—plays on these ideas. “It is an allegory for America but also an actual rodeo show that takes 13 years to perform.” The script was so surreal, he says, that one of his thesis readers called it a novel rather than a play. “It has old men humping cars and flag burning, but also a Disney sensibility...
...analogy of which I have no actual knowledge - namely tightrope walking. I have never walked on a tightrope, and indeed know nothing about it. But I imagine that tightrope walkers don't actually look down while they're doing their thing, they look ahead, which is the sort of approach I take. If you look at what my commitments are, I'm doing either four or five books a year, which is breaking all the rules of publishing. And If I stop to think, "Well my goodness me, what am I going to do," I would fall off the rope...
...December, most high school seniors never want to see a copy of the Common Application again. But in the basement of the Harvard College Office of Admissions, a framed four-by-two foot copy of the dreaded application hangs on the wall.The enormous application—an actual submission from a hopeful applicant—is complete with the student’s name, high school, and address, with rows of “Harvard” written across the header, with a miniscule “Yale” in the middle.“The biggest kick...
...Ezzati emphasized the need for changes at the macro level—like regulating access to tobacco, advertising, or information on packaging—one student smoker said there is a social aspect to smoking that might not be affected by such changes. “Along with the actual chemical addiction of nicotine, there’s also a psychological and social addiction,” said the student, who said she wished to remain anonymous so she wouldn’t be identified as a smoker. “No matter how much you deny it, there...
...increase appropriate preventive measures to eliminate all forms of racial discrimination.” So, essentially, in order to eliminate racism, it is important to eliminate racism. The document did suggest that national governments, non-governmental organizations, and the media could all be involved in the process, but actual mechanisms for achieving the end of racism were nowhere to be found...