Word: dunay
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...course, this quintessential politician-to-be isn’t about to admit straight out that he is on the campaign trail. “Right now,” Dunay says smoothly, “my ambition is to be a part of a legislative body. I’m not going to go forward from that,” he hesitates for a trademark beat, “at least right...
...listen to Daniel A. Dunay ’06 talk—to watch as he strums one hand’s fingertips against the other’s, to nod attentively as he crosses and uncrosses his legs for a few strategically inserted beats of silence—is to become a player in the young college boy’s favorite game. The game is at times about guessing, at others about appealing, still others about listening hard to what has not been said...
...mind, though, Dunay has gone forward. In fact, he does so many a night. Tucked snugly beneath the covers in his bedroom in Straus, Dunay allows his thoughts to travel to the Senate floor, where he imagines himself, 20-some years older and wiser, delivering a brilliant speech on some key matter of policy...
...imaginative exercise in oration incorporates more senses than just the visual. As Senator Dunay of the future moves Congressional masses with mere words, Harvard College first-year Dunay moves his lips, vocal chords, and hands, going through all the motions of the legislator par excellence he hopes to become. “Lying in bed at night, I’ll be talking to myself out loud,” Dunay says. “I guess we all think about what it would be like to be able to make a speech on the floor of the Congress...
...don’t think about such things, not to worry: Dunay is probably doing enough thinking to make up for the delinquent rest of us. He’s thought about how to enter into the political scene. He’s thought about how to pick the right clubs, the right classes, how to pick everything down to the right name. “The name is very important,” he explains. “Your name may not be as permanent as the size of your teeth or the size of your arms, but it?...