Word: mason
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...JACKIE MASON: MUCH ADO ABOUT EVERYTHING...
...Gentiles are allowed in the building?" asks Jackie Mason as he scans the audience to start his new one-man show, Much Ado About Everything. Indeed, it's a wonder that they are let in the building--Mason realizes his audience is virtually 100 percent Jewish and tailors his comedy appropriately. Sure, he occasionally delivers the universally appealing punch line, but even those seem unintentional--Mason knows his audience and boldly refuses to make his comedy broadly palatable. A gutsy approach but one that pays off in spades...
From 1942 to 1952 and again from 1968 to 1972, Merritt served as the chair of the music department. There he was responsible for raising most of the money for the Mason Building and for several named professorships...
...addition of the Mason Building, part of the larger music complex that includes Paine Hall, motivated Merritt to again become chair of the department...
...truth is that the Huskies did nothing to prevent the Crimson from playing as it did against George Mason, Northeastern, Cornell or any other opponent--Harvard actually outshot UConn...