Word: gurney
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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Adam B. Ulam, Gurney professor of History and Political Science, said the overture was one more step in an attempt by Russia to patch things up with China" that has been going on for a long time. He discounted the U.S. arms sale to Taiwan as a factor in Brezhney's action...
...DINING ROOM by A.R. Gurney...
Almost never does a U.S. playwright deal with bloodlines, class lines and cultural totems and taboos. That is what makes A.R. Gurney Jr.'s drama something of a novelty. It is not a play, properly speaking, but a series of vignettes, almost like revue sketches, set in Northeastern Wasp territory, where the inhabitants go to Ivy League schools, often possess inherited wealth and hold their opinions in their obdurate spines...
...Gurney uses the room as a kind of revolving door for life's large and little ironies. Through it troop generations of disparate families as well as a feudal array of maids much given to the response "Yes, Missus." In the first episode, a brother and sister who have inherited the house argue testily about which of them is to have the dining room. Subsequently, an architect advises a psychiatrist purchaser of the house to split the room up into his office and a reception area...
...breakfast table who tells his young son that the government is ruining the country. The boy replies that his teacher says the government should help people in Depression times. Fuming in anger, the father deliberately makes the boy late for school. Ramsay seems to embody the Wasps as Gurney critically and compassionately sees them-a breed whose manners calcified into morals while the society around them abandoned morality...