But on Monday, Dr. Shanahan said that after meeting with students last week and reading e-mail messages from them, it was clear that students "wanted to have an opportunity to engage him about his public life and not just hear him give them a parting message".
True, he would ask for money if people engaged him about doing push-ups, but that's just simple economics.
For the next 45 minutes, David sat nervously in the kitchen while Slovo drank a glass of water, engaging him in conversation about how his work was going.
The Yankees had thought of Clemens as their own, inviting him to spring training as an instructor, and, according to Clemens, engaging him in talks about a broadcasting job.
After getting one MAGA fan to high-five him in celebration of immigrant children being locked in cages at the border, Cohen-as-Borat managed to weasel his way into another Republican's living room, engaging him in a dialogue about the "fake news who say" Trump "is not a racist".
Demonstrating his ability to set the agenda, these articles usually dismissed Maclean but then set about engaging him on his own terms.
People tried to engage him in talk about the old days, when he and his twin tore up everything they tried.
He said his client "was at a Chrysler dinner, and a total stranger came up to him and engaged him in conversation about how the world works and mentions Jack Quinn".
The man, who had thrown his wallet, phone and passport into the water, was from Cheltenham, the Daily Mirror reported, so the cricketers tried to engage him in conversation about that.
He actually made a point of not learning all the bewildering changes to the pro game since he quit playing, in 1985, so that his sons would be more reluctant to engage him in conversation about football, as opposed to something else.
