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...Graduate School of Education (GSE), will stay on as the school’s next chief, University President Lawrence H. Summers announced yesterday. The last appointment of Summers’ term follows insider promotions at the Graduate School of Design and at the Business School. Design Dean Alan A. Altshuler and Business School Dean Jay O. Light both held their posts in an interim capacity before Summers made their appointments permanent. McCartney assumed the post of acting dean last July after taking over from Ellen Condliffe Lagemann, who served as dean for only three years before stepping down to return...
...addition to its Tony nods, this London import was just named best play of the season by my colleagues in the New York Drama Critics' Circle. But the high marks mystified me when I saw the show in London, and again in the (virtually identical) New York version. Alan Bennett's comedy-drama about a class of public school boys and their lovably old-fashioned teacher, struck me as a sentimental, highfalutin' version of Welcome Back, Kotter. Only in this case, the teacher (the dismayingly rotund Richard Griffiths) also likes to diddle the boys' privates when he gives them rides...
...outrage nearly every theater critic in New York City. Wallace Shawn's new translation goes a bit overboard in its ostentatious crudeness, but the show seems reinvigorated in every way, from the decadent-chic Isaac Mizrahi costumes to a terrific cast of singing actors--among them Jim Dale, Alan Cumming, Ana Gasteyer and Cyndi Lauper--who make the great, astringent score sizzle again...
...Garcon, s'il vous plait, / Encore, Chevrolet coupe") and real Yiddish, as when French soldiers sing, "A vous toot dir veh, a vous?" and the nine Supreme Court justices declare, "We're the A.K.'s / Who give the O.K.'s" - A.K.'s meaning alterkockers. (For this lore I thank Alan Abrams, Time's Broadway-musical scholar in residence, who played Wintergreen in summer stock a few years back...
...significant that Margaret Thatcher?no shrinking violet?feared no politician yet freely admitted that she faced her weekly briefing sessions with the Queen with trepidation. I greatly enjoyed your story about the Queen, but please don't dismiss her role as "self-evidently nonsensical." Let the monarchy evolve. Michael Alan Peate Ottawa...