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...take one more step and you'll be sorry," Jimmy Hogan, a precinct caucus captain for Jimmy Carter in Monticello, Iowa, bellowed across his living room at his daughter. And with her prompt pirouette, all hopes of seeing Ted Kennedy elected President died. The year was 1980 and Joe Trippi, a Democratic strategist for Ted Kennedy, had learned a crucial lesson: The Iowa caucuses are as much about group psychology - and sometimes the deference of a child to her parent - as they are about politics...
...Saturday. Teams were composed primarily of eight to 15 people and many were organized by sororities, fraternities, blocking groups, and groups of friends. “It’s nice to see all of our hard work validated,” Sigma Alpha Epsilon Philanthropy Chair Justin A. Monticello ’09 said. He added that his fraternity placed eighth in the Boston area, raising more than $3,400. Harvard organized the event with Boston College and Boston University and put forth 30 of the 120 teams. MIT, Simmons, Emerson, and Wellesley were also represented by teams...
...Deep South during his stay at a fishing lodge in Georgia. Depressed about his unfaithful wife back in England, a shy and insecure Charlie (Gregory J. B. Marsh, HBS) is brought to the States by his fellow British friend “Froggy” (Justin A. Monticello ’09) in an attempt to cheer him up. The play then takes on a comical twist when Froggy, in an effort to allay Charlie’s irrational fear of social interaction with the local Southerners, tells them that Charlie is actually a foreigner who doesn?...
However, the failure to have all cast members master their accents is rather distracting at times. For a play that hinges on the stark contrast between Brits and Southerners, it is particularly essential to have the accents be convincing. The differences between the accents of Marsh and Monticello made it difficult to believe that their characters were both British; when juxtaposed with Marsh’s successful accent, Monticello’s accent seemed to sound questionably Australian...
Enter Andrew Burstein and his third work on Thomas Jefferson, “Jefferson’s Secrets: Death and Desire at Monticello.” Burstein attempts to prove that in addition to the image that we all hold of Jefferson from his actions on the political scene, his retirement correspondence can shed new light on the already mythical figure...