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Judith H. Kidd, director of the Phillips Brooks House (PBH), will be “acting?? associate dean and will serve as liaison to the approximately 260 student groups at the College, head the Committee on College Life (CCL) and oversee the Harvard Foundation for Intercultural and Race Relations...
With a potentially brief term—Gross has dubbed her an “acting?? dean whose future role depends on the outcome of the curricular review—Kidd has a limited ability to effect long-term change...
Gross said Kidd’s technical title is “acting?? associate dean, because there was no search conducted for her. It also means that her stint as a director-dean has a time limit...
Reminiscent of a silent film star’s melodrama and penchant for exaggeration, Griesbach’s blocking pays homage to Baroque acting techniques. Baroque gesture acting??a technique composed of bold gestures corresponding to the action of the text—is not in common practice these days. It is an art that relies on text rather than the emotions of an actor to provoke a response from the spectator. Gestures of address and decrees of love or war are expressed in a highly stylized way. “It’s difficult to teach...
...Didion, the story of the evolution of modern American politics has as much to do with storytelling and acting??she makes no small point out of the fact that Reagan was initially an actor—as with the idea of limiting, of cutting off. She describes the “Reagan Democrats,” now called swing voters, who “became the voters to whom all election appeals would be directed, a narrowing of focus with predictable results, not the least significant of which was that presidential elections would come to be conducted almost...