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...Professor John Donovan, a longtime Krok sponsor who hires the group to entertain clients nearly every week, gave the group an advance payment to make certain the singers could still keep most of their tour engagements, students said...
...Lemon to create a piece with a black theme, Lemon demurred, but a chance meeting with Le Vaughn Robinson, a street-corner tap dancer, changed his mind. The result of their collaboration was Buck Dance, based on the syncopated clog dancing (the precursor of tap) that slaves performed to entertain their masters...
...Professor Greenblatt enlivens the class with many anecdotes--fascinating footnotes and asides about the plays and Shakespeare's time," says teaching fellow Chris Miller. "Greenblatt also seems more than willing to entertain off the cuff remarks blurted out during the course of his lecture. They simply become absorbed into the stream of his commentary...
Garber, on the other hand, has to perform. She has more than 500 people to entertain in Sanders Theatre on Mondays and Wednesdays...
...answer, it seems, lies in Quindlen's own writing, a style that attempts to entertain readers while striving to enlighten them. For, as Williams so wryly noted in Vanity Fair, a Pulitzer Prize winning writer such as Quindlen has the "journalistic equivalent of tenure at Harvard"--she can say anything she pleases without fear of retribution. Yet her writing is strangely reminiscent of the nineteenth century branch of feminism that preached a woman's role to be that of a social reformer, urging readers to wake up to such issues as the plight of children in the inner cities...