Eating lunch in a corner of the Berkeley College dining hall last week, Rob Simmons, 66, sat calmly. For one who had recently announced his bid to represent Connecticut in the U.S. Senate, challenging an incumbent who has handily won his previous races, Simmons seemed relaxed — especially considering that his last campaign did not end in victory.
It is November 1965. Gay Talese, a reporter 33 years of age, has left The New York Times to write for Esquire Magazine on a year-long contract.
There were no blinding lights or expensive cameras, but actor Elliot Gould began his Master’s Tea with a line that sounded scripted.
One Renaissance man discussed the life of another at a Trumbull College Master’s Tea on Monday afternoon.
Lord “Paddy” Ashdown of Norton-sub-Hamdon came across the pond to spend two days at Yale before heading to New York to discuss the situation in Afghanistan with United States special envoy for Afghanistan and Pakistan Richard Holbrooke.
After years of putting in 20-hour days and sleeping only when it was convenient, PepsiCo Chairwoman and Chief Executive Officer Indra Nooyi SOM ’80 said at a Pierson College Master’s Tea on Friday that she has effectively worked for the equivalent of 160 years.
“You sell 3 million copies, you become a role model,” hip-hop artist Chris “Ludacris” Bridges said Thursday afternoon.
Rule of thumb: If you are due for surgery, watch for nail polish.
Great lawyers are not merely eloquent speakers or those who risk personal safety for a case, but rather custodians of the rule of law who are willing to put their careers on the line, Floyd Abrams LAW ’60 argued Thursday.
New media met old media at a Jonathan Edwards College Master’s Tea on Wednesday afternoon.
As Ira Glass ascended to the stage before a packed Law School auditorium, the audience erupted in enthusiastic applause.
Modern attitudes toward the Western intellectual tradition should be reevaluated, Pulitzer Prize-winning author Marilynne Robinson argued in a lecture Tuesday.
