Word: gleason
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...cannot afford to get smug. Not all American victims are getting help, or even sympathy. "As a society," says Sociologist Gelles of private violence, "we laugh at this behavior." We should not. But indeed, such behavior is not so completely unthinkable that decent folks do not chuckle when Jackie Gleason's Ralph Kramden angrily threatens to sock his ever-loving wife. "I'm gonna send you to the moon," he barks on The Honeymooners, his clenched fist waving. "To the moon, Alice." But if people on the one hand laugh off private violence, they become raving, sputtering mad about...
...moment life goes on much as it did before Torch Song. He still lives at home, and after the performances of Brighton Beach, he, his mother and a high school friend will often sit up late and watch old TV programs, particularly The Honeymooners. "Jackie Gleason is god," says Broderick with some awe. A steady income has enabled him to pursue an interest in astronomy. On a clear night he will sometimes take one of his three telescopes up to the roof of his apartment building; from there, even with the lights of Manhattan around...
...people not taking it turned out to be our biggest source of headaches," Hollis Professor of Mathematics Andrew H. Gleason said of the three-year-old program. He added the lack of computer capacity forced officials to spread the testing out over several dates, and had increased students' temptation the requirement...
...Gleason added that because there are fewer dates to take the data test, it has created fewer problems for the QRR program. The last date test was on April...
...professors from the Faculty of Arts and Sciences--Gerald Holton, Mallinckrodt Professor of Physics, and Andrew M. Gleason, Hollis Professor of Mathematics and Natural Philosophy--served on the planning committee...