Dr. B
My blogs
| Gender | Male |
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| Occupation | College professor |
| Location | Salem, MA |
| Introduction | I began my career in communications at 6, with imaginary interviews with famous people. Almost 60 years later, I continue to believe in the power of the imagination when it's wedded to empirical reality. Member,Editorial Board, Public Relations Review (Elsevier) Professor, Communications Dept., Salem State College, Salem, MA 01970 Adjunct,Harvard University Extension School: 1990-present (Teach writing for PR and Marketing) Speechwriter: Atlantic Richfield, W.R. Grace Marketing: Director of Publications, Price-Waterhouse Coopers (then, Coopers & Lybrand) Writing Workshop Facilitator: The Weber Group (1999) Racepoint Group (2008) Speeches published in Vital Speeches of the Day "St Paul as a PR Practitioner," PR Review, June 2003 Op ed's: Boston Globe, LA Times, LA Examiner, Honolulu Advertiser |
| Interests | Higher Education, Public Relations, Contemporary American Poetry, Political Theory, Major League Baseball, Music: Jazz (Horace Silver, James Moody, T.Monk, etc.); traditional (Doc Watson); Ry Cooder |
| Favorite movies | East of Eden, Man for All Seasons 200l,Kiss of Death,La Strada, In the Heat of the Night. |
| Favorite music | Sasha Brown (Guitar) Country, Folk, Jazz, Classical, Opera, Broadway musicals ("South Pacific," "West Side Story," "Gypsy"), Doc Watson, Miles, James Moody, Horace Silver, |
| Favorite books | Disgrace, Huckleberry Finn, Lay of the Land, Herzog, Crime and Punishment, Alice Munro's stories, Collected Poems of Wallace Stevens, The Desert Music (poems by WC Willams), Write Screenplays that Sell: The Ackerman Way, In the Jaws of the Black Dog (John Mays) |