Word: gurneys
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...Stuart Hughes Gurney Professor of History and Political Science, presented a resolution to the Faculty at the December 12 meeting urging it to reaffirm the University's commitment to Afro-American Studies. Nwafor said yesterday that the resolution should be modified to say that the Department be "equipped to bring fresh viewpoints to bear in the study of its subject...
James C. Thomson Jr., lecturer on History, and H. Stuart Hughes, Gurney Professor of History, circulated the statement prior to yesterday's regularly scheduled meeting of the Faculty Council. Since the Council takes positions only on matters related directly to Harvard, it did not discuss the statement or vote on it as a body...
...opening shots were also fired In what promises to be a bitter debate over the future of the Afro-American Studies Department. H Stuart Hughes, Gurney Professor of History and Political Science, told the Faculty that on behalf of the Faculty Council he plans to introduce legislation calling for substantial changes in the Department's structure...
...toast from the 13th Earl of Gurney: "To England, this teeming womb of privilege." His luncheon companions, each a member of the House of Lords, raise their glasses in solemn salute. Later, at home, his manservant Tucker (Arthur Lowe) offers the earl (Harry Andrews) his evening whisky and a selection of nooses on a silver salver. "May I suggest the silk, sir?" Tucker says respectfully. The earl accepts, and begins his evening ritual, first stripping to his long underwear, then donning a regimental uniform jacket and a white ballet skirt, and finally stringing himself up for a harmless little swing...
...only living son Jack (Peter O'Toole), an odd sort who runs about in monk's habit sublimely certain that he is God. "He's a paranoid schizophrenic," his doctor diagnoses, to which Jack's Uncle Charles sputters indignantly: "But he's a Gurney...