The Global Fund must put as much energy into getting results as delivering rhetoric, pursuing performance verification with no less vigour than advocacy.
"Hitler is a ghastly example of this ability, and a reminder of the under-appreciated role that rhetoric and performance play in leadership," Bennis once noted.
Professor Jackson is the associate vice chancellor for the Arts + Design Initiative, Cyrus and Michelle Hadidi Chair in the Humanities, and professor of Rhetoric and Performance studies at the University of California Berkeley.
Jeremy Pelt, who has had the most professional experience of the four since graduating from the Berklee College of Music in 1998, grasped the rhetoric of performance, the realm beyond instrumental technique.
She adds that polls show that his SOTU didn't make new converts since "his strength is his curse -- more rhetoric than performance".
Recently, however, I have seen a shift away from the traditional model of book readings and for-and-against Oxford Union-style debates and towards a showier kind of speaking event, in which bookish ideas and themes are lifted off the page and into the stuff of rhetoric and performance.
Helped by his caustic rhetoric, strong performances in televised debates and a slick campaign that includes addressing rallies by hologram and Fiscal Combat – a "hit-the-rich" video game – his personal approval rating has leapt 22 points in a month to 68 points, making him France's most popular politician.
It's the almost absurdly high confidence, attack and playfulness, the band's whole wizardly performance rhetoric — especially in rhythm and vocals — that's astonishing, if only because it's so seldom seen here.
But after this series of unconvincing performances the gap between his high performance rhetoric about the Sky machine and the apparent reality behind the scenes has never seemed wider.
Mr. Mehldau -- 30 years younger -- is well suited to the situation, as he likes quiet tumult: he seems most in his element floating out of tempo, moving a melodic cell up and down, trying to erase any element of showy corniness in the rhetoric of jazz performance.
Drawing on multiple disciplines-including rhetoric and composition, performance studies, anthropology, history, and information science-the contributors to Digital Sound Studies bring digital humanities and sound studies into productive conversation while probing the assumptions behind the use of digital tools and technologies in academic life.
