Mr. Jobs ended his commencement talk with a call to innovation, in one's choice of work and in life.
But coming in conjunction with the impending tax cut, a new energy plan, a set of conservative executive and judicial appointments and other pieces of a White House agenda that looked far less bipartisan, the commencement talk was widely interpreted not as a plan for action but as part of a conscious strategy to woo Roman Catholic supporters.
In the commencement lecture, however, Boras was talking about Barry Bonds, who, as everyone in the audience knew, had just broken the single-season home-run record, with seventy-three.
All those things which commencement speakers talk about — personal growth, critical-thinking skills, intellectual exploration, breadth of learning — will survive at the top institutions, but other colleges will come under increased pressure to adopt the model of trade schools.
"There has been a commencement of talks, although it's fair to say we are still in the early stages," said McRae.
In final words of advice to the graduates, the commencement speakers generally talk about working hard and becoming successful -- about becoming famous, wealthy and generally important -- you know, things that the first five questions relate to.
Lewis mentions a talk, a commencement speech he gave at his old alma mater, Princeton, two years ago.
Steve Jobs's Stanford commencement address, a short talk that he gave in 2005 and which went viral after his death in 2011, is, in many ways, the ne plus ultra of Jobsian wisdom.
1 A Theme for Commencements Nearly everyone who worked the commencement speech circuit this spring talked about Sept. 11.
Dissimilar reactions were reported before the commencement of such historic talks.
Over time, her words of inspiration have turned into TED talks and commencement speeches, and she has been able to touch even more lives.
