Word: oratorically
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So wrote the Romantic-era Polish poet Juliusz Slowacki in 1848, lines so visionary and improbable -- a Pole as Supreme Pontiff! -- that few, even in long-suffering Poland, believed they would ever come true. In 1938, however, a Polish teenager would be singled out for what would eventually be an...
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...