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Some critics believe the Terrace is a pricey boondoggle that cash-strapped Madison can ill afford, even though more than half the cost will be borne by state and county funds and by private donors. Yet another source of acrimony is whether the Terrace deserves to be considered a Wright...
Brown's activities are not limited to thestage. She served as vice president of the SignetSociety, Harvard's society of arts and letters,performing dramatic readings in the same roomswhere T.S. Eliot '10, George Plimpton '48 and JohnUpdike '54 once gathered. More recently, she won aprestigious Hoopes Prize for her...
Much of Brown's thesis centered around a closeanalysis of Safire's work, examining how hisphilosophy of independent responsibility wasrepresented through the careful construction ofhis words.
"It [the thesis] was grounded in Safire'stexts, " she says. "it was based on the idea thatwhen one says something, the words represent oneto the world, and one must therefore be carefulabout what one says, and deliberately mean it."
Thesis aside, Brown has made her presence feltin the academic community. Her theatricalendeavors have extended to the classroom, whereshe often has impressed professors with both herintellect and dramatic talents.