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Eminent literary critic M.H. Abrams ’34 addressed a rapt crowd in Lamont Library yesterday, emphasizing the value of appreciating poetry by reading it out loud. The bespectacled scholar spoke to an overflowing crowd in a lecture entitled “On Reading Poems Aloud” in the library’s Forum Room. “Read the lines aloud so as to savor the enunciation of the sweet sound,” he instructed his audience. “Can you taste the consonants? You should,” he added, after the crowd?...
...show how students can get involved in unconventional ways through film and media,” said HIGH’s education officer, Catherine Rosseel, in an interview with The Crimson. There was good reason for the organization to consider that aim met, given the high turnout and rapt silence during the film, “Rx For Survival: A Global Health Challenge.” Narrated by Brad Pitt, the documentary chronicles health challenges from around the world. From clips of a girl named Raquel in Peru, who lives with a drug-resistant strain of tuberculosis and will...
...sharp, dark gray suit. His tone is impassioned, as urgent as a preacher's. His message: Etiquette builds better relationships. Boiled down, he says, Biz Et has three aims: "Think before acting, make choices that build relationships, and do it sincerely." The well-tailored young business crowd pays rapt attention. They are the Rutgers pharmacy students fast-forwarded five or 10 years...
...most docs will say reps are just a minor distraction, that as professionals "we do our learning the old-fashioned way." The cheap pens and pads adorned with logos and drug names, and the occasional steak-house dinners are supposed to mean nothing to us. But 10 minutes of rapt attention from a smiling beauty is still 10 more minutes than usual. So what if she's talking about nausea, vomiting and diarrhea - we talk about that stuff too. Every doc I know thinks he or she is above truly being influenced by drug reps. Professing ourselves wise, though...
...Berezovsky, an oligarch and high Russian official of the Yeltsin years, now exiled, had met Politkovskaya on several occasions. At one of their last meetings, he said, she had told him about threats she'd been receiving. "She asked, 'Do you think they can kill me?'" Litvinenko told a rapt audience at the Frontline Club, a British organization that promotes independent journalism. "I told her quite frankly: Yes, they can." Litvinenko ended with his accusation. "I know that a journalist of her stature could not be touched without sanction from the Russian President himself," he said. "Anna was a political...