Word: barbra
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Elitism on this page is nothing revolutionary. With the criticism of Barbra Streisand for what was an engaging and poignant speech, though, it has reached a new height...
...staff supports Barbra Streisand's defense of funding for the National Endowment for the Arts. Not only is goverment funding for the arts a waste of taxpayer money; it is potentially dangerous to artistic freedom to have the government making decisions about what constitutes artistic merit. We no longer live in Renaissance Florence. The government ought to have no role in this area...
...Barbra Streisand has proved time and again in her career that she goes where she wants to. She has been virtually unstoppable as an actress singer, producer and political activist. And with last week's performance, Streisand proved that even fair Harvard is not exempt from getting "verklempt" at her presence. The Kennedy School Was star struck--in more than one sense of the word...
...Poor Barbra looked awfully silly up at the podium when her prepared speech, which alluded to Palto and quoted John F. Kennedy' 44-'46, among others was finished. When the teleprompter ran out of things for her to say, the celebrity was embarrassingly unable to respond to issues raised by Kennedy School and other students...
...mission, according to its brochures: "To inspire undergraduates to pursue careers in politics and public service Barbra does not fulfill that mission. It has a history of inviting heads of state, high-ranking administration officials and political writers to discussions with students...