Even as Times Square and the Theater District recovered, the Town Hall could not simply hop on the Broadway bandwagon: It was designed as a hall for speakers, meaning it has almost no wing space and cannot accommodate sets and scenery.

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By requiring speakers to carefully consider the meaning of their words, he hoped that his analytical language would force many of the subterranean quirks of human cognition to the surface, and free people from the bugs that infect their thinking.

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It was the voice that got me soaring from the speakers, big and bold and bobbing around the pitch, leaving even the most mundane lyrics swollen with meaning.

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