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...early appearances of these young stand-ups: Bill Cosby, Woody Allen, Godfrey Cambridge, Joan Rivers. Each one smote a Philadelphia kid with the force of comic revelation. And each one, and a hundred others, vaulted from the Tonight Show spotlight into life-long careers, sitcoms, movies, a fame nearly as enduring as that of the host who cackled, winkedand gave the OK sign from his desk...
...acknowledge that he attended the opera (his favorite: Giordano's Andrea Chenier). He booked serious authors to fill the last 15 mins. of his then-90-min. broadcast. His musical guests eschewed rock 'n roll; they included crooners, opera tenors and sopranos, lots of jazz men, both in the spotlight (Joe Williams must have sung Every Day I Have the Blues 40 times in those days) and on the bandstand, which was stocked with some of the best mainstream jazz musicians. Like Hugh Hefner, another essential taste-shaper of the period, Carson found that mixing esteemed authors and cool jazz...
...vision, as always, the administration must take care to maintain a clear focus on student needs. Gross must be wary of creating bureaucratic cobwebs that hinder more than they help; after all, appointing new deans is not a solution in itself, but simply a mechanism for putting the spotlight on an important issue. The test will be in the changes themselves. In his time so far as dean of the College, Gross has followed in Lewis’ footsteps by listening well to students, speaking openly with them and maintaining a strong presence in most matters of undergraduate life?...
Other students took a break from studying for final exams to weigh in on the University president’s latest foray into the national spotlight...
...various issues, and rely on the media to advertise them - and themselves." The fury over BHL raises a question: if Lévy is the perfect French intellectual for the media age, what's become of intellectualism? Can the philosopher's rarefied habit of mind survive in the spotlight? The criticism is not entirely new; BHL's earlier works were widely denounced by late, great French intellectuals like Deleuze, Pierre Bourdieu and Raymond Aron, who labeled his positions hyperbolic and rash. By contrast, Cohen laments, books like Who Killed Daniel Pearl? don't get a single bad review despite what...