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Recently, the “Harvard Speaks?? campaign has surfaced a desire for the College to focus on educating its students in the art of public speaking. Because this skill is an essential component of success, regardless of one’s future profession, we hope that Harvard responds by increasing opportunities to acquire it, both in and out of the classroom...
...Harvard Speaks?? petition and the recent demand for classes that offer instruction in public speaking demonstrate that the student body values this skill. This semester’s Expos 40, “Public Speaking Practicum,” garnered 104 applications for only 12 slots. It seems clear that more Harvard students want to learn the rhetorical craft than Expos 40 and a select number of other related courses can accommodate. Considering the demonstrated and professed interest in oratory instruction, Harvard should expand the number of courses that feature public speaking components. Those that already do?...
...have as a gift for the world. Then how can you commit Guantanamo Bay? Take back your country.” The crowd at yesterday’s talk appreciated Tutu’s message. “He’s incredible. The zeal, the way he speaks??he could sell toilet paper and you’d want to buy it,” Libby A. Cunningham, a student at the Harvard School of Public Health, said. “He was just so affable, he addressed the management of world affairs but with a real...
...immaculate characterization in the show is marred only by the ghostly presence of Brick’s dead best friend Skipper, played by William D. Kehler ’11. Rather than a problem of acting or character—Kehler never speaks??it seems to be more a problem of blocking and technically-produced ambiance. Rather than a ghost who sporadically interrupts Brick’s consciousness, Skipper seems to be a sketchy stranger who just happens to pop into the plantation house from time to time and fondle Brick...
Many people assume that Marceau physically cannot speak; that he is deaf or mute and that his profession was a product of this condition. But offstage, he most certainly speaks??at length. As he himself has famously said, “Never get a mime talking. He won’t stop.” In a question-and-answer session on Sept. 29, Marceau shared a great deal of advice and wisdom with students and performers of the ART and of the Harvard community...
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