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...origin of Lincoln's facility with words: "The frontier America of Lincoln's youth was first of all a rhetorical society, where the ability to speak in public, at length was central to social ambitions; giving a speech in 1838 in Illinois was the equivalent of putting on a play in 1598 in London, the thing you did into which everything else flowed. (We are, by turn - and a writer says it with sadness - essentially a society of images: a viral YouTube video, an advertising image, proliferates and sums up our desires; anyone who can't play the image game...
...Jackman lives in New York City, the writers flew from Los Angeles to work out of a room at the Mandarin Oriental hotel. I was expecting to join an enormous gathering of the greatest comedy writers in the world, who would mock me with cutting barbs about my relative youth and handsomeness. Instead, there were three dudes eating Gummi Bears from the minibar. Two of them weren't even Jewish. The third was a 27-year-old who makes Web videos and got the job when he was pitching a movie idea to Jackman's company--an idea it turned...
...buildings and Spanish-moss-covered oaks that hosts some 3,400 students. Under Harp's proposal, it would keep its name but merge with Armstrong Atlantic State, a majority-white school of about 7,000 down the road. Founded in 1890 as the Georgia State Industrial College for Colored Youth, Savannah State opened at its current site on a wooded salt marsh in 1891, 70 years before the state's universities were integrated. Its first president, Richard Wright Sr., was born into slavery...
...Those programs seemed like logical picks to round out the top of the Ivy standings, while the rest of the league looked to be suffering from youth or just lack of talent...
...contributed an enormous amount of his time at Harvard to the arts. For Polk, theater isn’t just a passion; it’s an incredible community. The San Diego native first found his passion for acting when he began to perform in his local youth theater group at age 10, and he’s still in touch with many of the friends he made in his early acting days. At Harvard, Polk says, the theater scene has allowed him to form “relationships and friendships with some of the most amazing people he?...