Word: gurneys
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...scenes of carnage and grief, side by side on television. Flip: a teenage girl lies on a gurney, her throat freckled with bloodstains. Flip: a mother in Kosovo keens over the body of her child. Flip: children running from the Columbine school. Flip: refugees dragging themselves up a mountain road. Flip: Serbian mass murderers. Flip: "Trench Coat Mafia" mass murderers. Two lines of categorical hatred meet at a point before our eyes, but it is imponderable still, out of the question, unreal--all that death...
...Navy lieutenant stationed in Japan in 1954, has a poop deck full of problems. He's trying to hide a Japanese girlfriend from his stuffy family back home. His roommate is being blackmailed into passing military secrets. The tart wife of his commanding officer is putting moves on him. Gurney, the prolific chronicler of Wasp life (The Dining Room, Love Letters), seems a bit out of his depth in this plotty drama, which raises (but doesn't grapple with) issues ranging from homosexuality in the military to the origins of Vietnam. But the compact grace of his writing and Daniel...
Each morning, Gurney Professor of English Literature Derek A. Pearsall takes a bus to work. As it winds along Mass. Ave. and through Central Square, Pearsall chats with the people he meets...
...have to be aggressive. That's Harvard," hesays. "At Swarthmore faculty knock on your door;here you have to knock on our doors, but we'llopen them."CrimsonMelissa K. CrockerMOB SCENE: STACY M. ABDER '99 speakswith Gurney Professor of English and LiteratureDEREK A. PEARSALL yesterday after a lecture in"Literature and Arts A-12: The Story of Arthur."Students often try to catch their professors afterclass instead of venturing into office hours...
BOSTON--Sedated and sand-bagged, a large gray-and-white dog named Poochie lies motionless on a gurney. His mouth is wedged open to allow the linear accelerator above his head to aim radiation directly at the malignant tumor blocking his nasal passages...