Word: purloin
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...undergraduate, Diane M. Paulus ’87 used to purloin production posters from the lobby of the American Repertory Theatre’s (A.R.T.) Loeb Drama Center, then hang them in her Cabot House dorm room. Paulus will more than make up for her pilfering, serving as the next artistic director for the Harvard-affiliated A.R.T., the University announced Friday afternoon. The announcement comes after a protracted search that began over a year ago, after the theater’s board of directors decided not to renew the contract of then-director Robert Woodruff, whom some criticized...
Dean offers, to purloin a phrase, a choice, not an echo. His pugnacity in defense of his liberal instincts is obviously genuine. After eight years of careful Clintonian positioning, it's refreshing. Compared with Kerry's packaged, tested, hollow rants against "special interests," Dean's straight talk is invigorating. He isn't haunted, as Kerry is, by the specter of Vietnam. Even the famous Iowa scream had more authenticity and fire than Kerry's labored recitation "Bring it on." Unlike Kerry, Dean has held a serious executive office--balancing budgets, reforming health care, innovating on civil rights. Kerry's undistinguished...
...purloin Ralph Ellison's Phrase, the "invisible man" of the civil rights movement. In the struggle for African-American dignity, he was perhaps the most critical figure that many people have never heard of. Which is why, as we prepare to observe Martin Luther King Jr. Day on Jan. 20, it's worth taking a look at the life and lessons of one Bayard Rustin...