Communication Skills

THE COLLEGE PUMP Communication Skills tuting a hollow globe over six feet in di- Gallucio pulled a knife to defend himself ameter, the hoops divided its surface into and cut Capone’s face three times before 32 di≠erent apertures. The student could grabbing his sister thrust his hands into various openings in and fleeing. Gallucio front of him. The postures so defined cor- took his grievance responded to ‘15 fundamental or system- to Lucky Luciano, “Your wooden arm you hold outstretched atic positions’ that the orator’s arms might who went to Yale. The to shake with passers-by.” assume while speaking, each associated by three of them per- Barber with a specific emotion….To master suaded Capone to atching President George W. eloquence, all Harvard students were apologize. His physi- Bush at the podium, one might marched into this bathosphere and re- CHICAGO HISTORICAL SOCIETY/ ICH1-23877 cal wounds healed, judge that in the elocutionary quired to declaim under his watchful eye, Frankie Yale but he was known arts, he falls down in the ges- thrusting their hands through designated thereafter, in some circles, as “Scarface.” ture department. A tentative slats at appropriate points in the text. Tenner suggests that the menacing Wfinger-point. A drift of the open hand. He “More beloved by its inventor than by Frankie Yale missed an even better name might do well to study A Practical Treatise its victims,” writes West, “the bamboo for his tavern: “The Skull and Bones.” of Gesture (1829), by Jonathan Barber, who sphere was found one morning dangling taught elocution at Harvard from 1829 to from a Cambridge barber pole.” 1834 and was said by one observer to be zealous about it, although “pompous and Cupid in the kitchen. With Valen- fantastic in mien, speech, and manners.” tine’s Day approaching, consider saying it Michael West ’59, professor of English Organized crime: Branding Division. with food. Sarah Hutcheon of the Rad- at the University of Pittsburgh, writes in Tony Soprano would know—and con- cli≠e Institute’s Schlesinger Library pro- Transcendental Wordplay: America’s Romantic tributing editor Edward Tenner, Jf ’72, vides a reading list of lubricious cook- Punsters and the Search for the Language of Na- points out—that Al Capone got his start books from its culinary collection: Robert ture that Barber initiated students into the at a Coney Island tavern called the Har- Hendrickson, Foods for Love: The Complete mysteries of rhetorical gesture with an vard Inn, so named by its proprietor, the Guide to Aphrodisiac Edibles (1974); Janeen apparatus like a bamboo cage that he eminent gangster Frankie Yale. The 18- Sarlin, Fifty Ways to Feed Your Lover (2000); devised. “The stu- year-old Capone’s job was to be the bar- Judith Stewart, The Passionate Gourmet dent stood tender and bouncer and to wait on tables (1990); Susan Hartz, The Great Lovers Cook- inside four if necessary. book (1984); Ernest Carteris, A Cookbook for equal vertical Capone did well in his work at first, Lovers (1970); Cynthia Watson, Love Po- hoops, each until one day he waited on the table of a tions: A Guide to Aphrodisia and Sexual Plea- angled at 45 young couple. “The girl was beautiful and sures (1993); Raymond Stark, The Book of degrees from the young Capone was entranced,” writes Aphrodisiacs (1981); Barbara Cartland, The the others. Marilyn Bardsley of the on-line Crime Li- Romance of Food (1984); and Omero Rom- Around these brary. He leaned over the girl and mis- pini, La cucina dell’amore: Manuale culinario meridians ran communicated—in e≠ect if not intent. afrodisiaco per gli adulti dei due sessi Rigener- three horizon- “Honey,” said Capone, “you have a nice azione fisica, virilità e giovinezza ricuperate per tal great cir- ass, and I mean that as a compliment.” l’impiego appropriato dei cibi, condimenti, aromi, cles, so seven The man with her was Frank Gallucio, salse ecc. Formule storiche, afrodisiaci igienici hoops encircled a her brother. He leapt to his feet and prodigiosi, bibite e profumi eccitanti, suggestivi e student. Consti- punched Capone, who “flew into a rage.” rinvigoritori sessuali (1926). primus v Illustration by Lynne Foy Harvard Magazine 87 95-5746. print information, contact Harvard Magazine, Inc. at 617-4 Reprinted from Harvard Magazine. For copyright and re.

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