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Hollis Professor of Mathematicks and NaturalPhilosophy Andrew M. Gleason, a former juniorfellow who now chairs the society, said thesociety has changed since the time when Quine wasa fellow...
WHEN JANE ALEXANDER WAS starring in Harold Pinter's Old Times off-Broadway a decade ago, an unlikely Pinter fan -- Jackie Gleason -- went backstage to ask what the play meant. "I don't know," Alexander replied. "I'm not sure even Mr. Pinter does." Gleason nodded to express his own bafflement, then added, "Hell of an evening though...
...difficulty of maintaining both the broad coverage and the intellectual depth that students deserve," says Gleason Professor of Fine Arts Neil Levine...
Broadway's 1959-60 season, though not a high-water mark in the vanished heyday of the book musical, brought The Sound of Music, Fiorello!, Carol Burnett in Once Upon A Mattress and Jackie Gleason in Take Me Along. Yet it is probably best remembered among devotees for a show business story called Gypsy, which was based on the memoirs of a stripteaser's rivalry with her actress sister but evolved into a harrowing portrait of their implacable stage mother, played by Ethel Merman in her final and, many feel, greatest origination of a Broadway role...
Dominating them is the Caesar character, Max Prince, played by Nathan Lane with such adrenal zest and unquenchable rage that his face keeps turning purple and his eyeballs all but explode. Lane evokes Jackie Gleason more than Caesar as he bellows and punches through walls. The difference, as Simon knows from having served both, is that Caesar huddled with his writers while Gleason demanded that the finished script just be slipped under the door...