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Ionesco's work was often likened to Samuel Beckett's. In The Chairs, for example, an old couple at a lighthouse fill a room with chairs to prepare for an orator who turns out to speak only by growling. Most of Ionesco's works were funnier than Beckett's, more...
As an undergraduate at Harvard, Thayer achieved literary distinction in almost every way possible. In addition to being president of the Lampoon, Thayer was chosen to be the Class Day Ivy orator. And as a junior, he wrote the Hasty Pudding play.
But Lorena Bobbitt is in many ways just your typical small-town multicultural manicurist, a woman whose ideas of political science are summed up in a statement she made about Venezuela, where she grew up: "I have a patriotism . . . We do have McDonald's. We do have Pizza Hut." Nor...
"Somebody's trying to poon the `Poon," Dave said. David J. Kennedy `93, writer, orator, and effete ne'er-do-well, was standing before me in one of his tiffs. He let out a huff of indignation, mussing his debate jock/skate rat bangs. He handed me a crude flyer which...
The debate is all the more vexing because it involves trying to outguess Mother Nature -- a futile endeavor, as evidenced by the wild unlikelihood of devastating rain in July, which nonetheless happened. The consistent pattern of late 20th century flooding in the U.S. has been a decline in deaths proportionate...