Word: gurney
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...driving rain. Hospitalized, he releases himself and bombards his way into his own dressing room. What Norman is confronted with is a shuddering, sobbing hulk of a man who cannot remember the first lines of a play he has performed 426 times. Sir's wife (Rachel Gurney) and his longtime stage manager (Marge Redmond) are all for canceling the performance, but Norman adamantly invokes the theater's sacrosanct commandment without actually uttering it-the show must go on. Norman pleads with Sir, he prods, he cajoles, he utters the hypnotizing words ("a full house"), catapulting the fragile tyrant...
...future of political and intellectual freedom in modern Russia may well depend on future Russian perceptions of Western spiritual, economic, and military power, Adam B. Ulam, Gurney professor of History and director of the Russian Research Center, said last night...
...difficult year," says Adam B. Ulam, Gurney Professor of History and Political Science and director of the Russian Research Center. "But then the ambassador to Russia cannot usually do much anyway," he adds...
Adam Ulam, Gurney Professor of History and Political Science and director of the Russian Research Center (RRC), smiles when he remembers the first meeting of the Center's staff in 1948: "Clyde Kluckhohn, who was then director, got up and told us that we shouldn't devote too much attention to current problems. Our (original) grant was for five years, and he said all the problems between the Soviet Union and the United States should be solved by then...
Adam Ulam, Gurney Professor of History and Political Science, said barring political skeletons from the Nixon Administration, Haig would be confirmed. However, Ulam questioned Haig's ability to achieve a consensus in foreign policy among Democrats and Republicans...