Word: gurneys
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...Harvard say they watched the show. Some, like international relations expert Associate Professor of History Bradford E. Lee, "made a point of not watching it," while Russian historian Gurney Professor of History and Political Science Adam Ulam stuck it out for two minutes before pronouncing the series "unbearably dull...
...this quirky storytelling device meant to lend intellectual gloss to an apparently slight tale? Is Playwright A.R. Gurney Jr., whose works (The Dining Room, The Perfect Party) are often short on incident but long on sly allusion and will-o'-the-wisp charm, once again slipping away from consummation of a plot? Beneath the winsome comedy, Gurney is playing with the Whitmanesque notion that each man contains multitudes. When the two Sues contemplate a nude sketch of the boy -- all that lingers from the maybe affair -- what they term "very good" is not just his lithe body or their rendering...
Director John Tillinger evokes fine performances: Moore has never been ; better. This is the play Gurney's fans have been waiting for him to write, funny and inventive but also bravely expansive in scope. Gurney once described his comic gift as "dancing in chains." In Sweet Sue he breaks free. -- W.A.H.II
...department simply reaffirmed its faith in Watson," said Gurney Professor of English Literature Jerome H. Buckley. "Having reviewed objections that some people from outside--the ad hoc committee and so forth--had to the appointment, the department decided to reaffirm its endorsement," he said...
Soviet experts praised the exchange for cultural and aesthetic reasons, but denied that it will have any political impact. "It is a very pleasing, very significant cultural exchange," said Adam B. Ulam, Gurney Professor of History and Political Sience...