Word: podium
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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Before handing the podium over to Rudenstine,Lithgow made a surprise presentation to honorMayman's 25th year as director...
...think Dartboard hasn't noticed. More often than not, head TF Judith Li '94 escorts him from the stage after lecture, protecting him as he flees the premises. By the time curious students make it to the podium, God forbid, to ask a quick question, he's long gone...
...podium's most popular orator may have been Rev. Hugh M. Hill '48--more widely known as Brother Blue--who said he was inspired to attend because he admires the work of Eliot Professor of Education Charles V. Willie...
...notion that form andcontent can be neatly separated was hardly uniqueto Prose: remarkably--and despite the earlierassertions of the writer E. Annie Proulx and thecritic Seven Birkerts that style is not merely thearrangement of words but rather expressive of andinextricable from the author's entireworldview--nobody sitting on the podium with Proseseemed immediately bothered by her assertion. And,in Hemingway's case, perhaps it is not hard tounderstand why: if one can separate style fromcontent, one can perhaps remove from the text andfrom literary legacy the offensive of ErnestHemingway...
...Gardner Museum has Isabella Gardner to thank for endowing the place with a magical feeling that tickles audience's souls and subdues their critical faculties. Had Terence Riley, chief curator of the Department of Architecture and Design at Museum of Modern Art in New York, stood at the podium and screamed out math equations-in German-he probably still would have been a crowd pleaser...