In French culture, the eyes are supposed to meet in public, to invite a conversation or just to exchange a visual greeting with a stranger.
"And by presenting it in all its dull bleakness we invite a conversation about whether when we do these old plays we should present the gender politics, because when we drag the heroic lead character through time and present him today, he carries a lot of negative freight.
"A guy and a guy walking across campus, that may become an issue, and one of our student life folks, if it comes to their attention, would probably invite a conversation".
One of Tina and my deepest hopes about this no-drama approach is that it will invite a new conversation about discipline -- one that we hope will be good for parents and children alike to increase connection and optimize learning.
Red Tails, with its success at the box office, majority African-American cast and white main funder, invites a powerful conversation about race, access, allies, solidarity, grassroots movements, cooption, and history that all Americans should be engaged in.
And while you can debate the rationale and benefit behind any mandatory requirement for volunteer service, New York's bold act invites an important conversation for the larger business community around setting standards that place value on pro bono contributions.
Some time after the Senate vote, I was invited to a conversation with Judge Bork at the offices of The New Republic magazine.
[APPLAUSE] [SIDE CONVERSATION] I invite a member of the Cornell University Glee Club and a member of the Cornell Chorus to please come forward to open the gates that will formally dedicate this beautiful Sesquicentennial Commemorative Grove.
It seeks instead to travel with the work and its ideas, invite it to blossom and invite others into a conversation that might have previously seemed impenetrable, to draw out relationships that might have been unseen and open doors that might have been locked.
Why? Whom else would you want to "invite" to such a conversation?
On the occasion of Ellen Berkenblit's second exhibition "Ellen Berkenblit: Paintings" at Susanne Vielmetter Los Angeles Projects, we are pleased to invite you to a conversation between the artist and William J Simmons.
