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...After observing his love interest, Kathy Lacey (Dorothy McGuire), stay silent after hearing an anti-Semitic joke at a dinner party, he upbraids her: everyone may object to the joke, but if everyone stays quiet or laughs politely, the jokes will keep getting made. She must speak up and bring to the collective conscious of the room the unacceptability of bigotry. He does not want her to change their minds: he wants her to be an emperor?...
...experience. Fleming felt that when she made the decision in eighth grade to attend an all-girls high school, her choice was met with biting responses. “There was an assumption that people made, that I might be a feminist, and in middle school the boys would joke about lesbianism,” Fleming says. Joanna Marquina ’10, didn’t want to leave her guy friends behind and attend an single-sex school. In fact, the decision to enter Woodlands Academy, an all-girls Catholic day school in Illinois, was her parents?...
...begins. In a tuxedo jacket with an undone bowtie dangling by the tulip in his lapel, Wallach croons with the exaggerated sincerity of a lounge singer, bombarding the crowd with off-color charm, lazy-eyed smiles, and an eager but ill-timed joke about Eliot Spitzer...
...total silliness and serious, intense conversations till four in the morning. Hirschberg believes that the presence of comedy is crucial to all of her artistic work. Theater can be oppressive if you don’t have something funny. Doing comedy well is tough, even scary because if a joke falls flat it kills the scene. The intensity of the scene is what keeps you at the edge of your seat but the comedy is what keeps you wanting to be on your seat in the first place. In order to be interesting, a play doesn’t have...
...McKinnon's answer was mostly a joke, but he was hinting at the real message behind McCain's weeklong "biography" tour around the country. The purpose was not just to show the places and experiences that had shaped McCain, but to draw for voters and the media a clearly defined narrative of what those experiences signify. The tumultuous early years are, for McCain and his campaign, the first parts of a story of redemption, of a transformation from irresponsible youth to the wise elder, from selfish child to selfless adult...