Word: gleason
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...Translation Service is perhaps its most distinctive division. Don Gleason '68, head of Translating, says his department is particularly appropriate for a student organization because so many students have language skills. IGS has on file student experts in as many as 35 different languages; students translate only from a learned language into their native tongue. The real problem is matching the language talent with a particular skill area, since most assignments are translations of technical articles. IGS has had great luck with the translating bureau, making use of such unusual skills as a Czechoslovakian-speaking graduate student in East European...
...playing, though bristling with authority, is unorthodox: he plucks the strings with his thumb in stead of his fingers or a plectrum, giving a rounded, intense tone, and he phrases in short, jabbing bursts instead of the looping legatos of most post-Christian guitarists. Enter Jazz Critic Ralph Gleason...
...Gleason: You're the most exciting and original jazz guitarist in a decade...
...explanation is financial, not seasonal. A heavy season of costly specials makes any curtailment of new production an attractive idea. As a result, a "year" for a typical series now lasts 26 weeks. Jackie Gleason, in fact, turned out only 22 in his "season." He went to reruns...
...Gleason and others who support the Bank deny that shifting many of these costs to students will by-pass society or hurt borrowers. They point out that the country would still pay in real terms by diverting resources from production to education. They predict that a student who borrowed money to meet his huge expenses would be able to push up his salary to compensate for the large amounts he would owe the Bank...