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...taught in the intervening century, it was a purely literary study, not debasing itself to performance. In 1905, George Pierce Baker came to Harvard and starting teaching a playwriting class where he taught the likes of Eugene O’Neill. More significantly, he started the Harvard Dramatics Club in 1908. According to Brustein, Pierce was offered an alumni donation of $1,000,000 to build a theatre at Harvard and allow the students in his playwriting class to mount their works.Yet university officials, still entrenched in intellectual prejudices against the study of dramatic works, scoffed at what they felt...
...Romney, by contrast, appeared before a Rotary Club on Monday with a PowerPoint presentation on his economic policy. It is relentlessly detailed, almost claustrophobic in its proportion of charts to text. The subject matter is not especially unusual for a Republican: cut government spending, cut taxes, be more competitive in the global marketplace. It's just that these sorts of arid managerial charts, the lifeblood of Romney's previous career as a consultant, generally don't fit the crowd-energizing mood of the political stump speech. It's less the "Fired up! Ready to go!" chant made famous...
...turned up for Romney seem to mind. They're the types who listen when E.F. Hutton talks. They appreciate Romney's businesslike approach, even his deft way with a slide. "I thought he did a good job with the PowerPoint," Sue Pease, president-elect of the Manchester Rotary Club, said afterwards. Ken Perks, a prosecutor in Hillsborough, reviewed the performance with a sentence that could be cut from a Romney endorsement: "I think we need the kind of analysis that is used in business more than in politics...
...Speaking at the Portsmouth Rotary Club meeting on Thursday, McCain had no slides, but there was beer. A cook from the restaurant hung out in the back dressed in chef's whites. And though the candidate eventually got to cutting taxes and government spending, the importance of the war on terror and educational choice, he began with an old Irish joke about "the O'Reilly twins getting drunk again" - one of four or five jokes in his repertoire. Reporters talk of pitching in to buy the candidate a book of new ones, but McCain is enthusiastic in telling them...
...takes the type of analytical viewpoint that’s characteristic of Harvard," Lorch said. Also represented were student advocates for former New York Mayor Rudy Giuliani, Sen. John McCain (R-Ariz.), and former Tennessee Senator Fred Thompson. Caleb L. Weatherl '10, the president of the Harvard Republican Club, which organized the debate, told The Crimson in an interview before the event that the club's members are a mixture of students who had committed to a candidate and those who remained undecided. He added that he had not made up his mind, and would not say after the event...