Word: goffman
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...hope he’s going to be in a position where he can influence policy,” says Mark Goffman, one of the show’s writers. “The fact that he went to Harvard is something we’re playing with—how he has access because of Harvard, and in other ways, that somebody else might not have...
...1994—would know. If Harvard seems well-represented on the resumes of TV’s White House power brokers, it may be because so many of the show’s producers and writers themselves traversed the winding paths of the Yard. In addition to Goffman, Harvard trained three of the show’s producers: Eli Attie ’89, Lawrence O’Donnell ’76 and Paul Redford...
Attie, O’Donnell and Goffman, whose careers have spanned the political and entertainment worlds, are all emphatic about maintaining the distinction between their television work and the reality of government...
...Goffman concurs...
There is no single memory that comes to mind when I think of myself at Harvard 25 years ago—rather a stream of images, fitful, fleeting, snapshots that capture what historian Erving Goffman would call The Theatricality of Everyday Life...