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Playwright A.R. Gurney Jr. is a cocktail party charmer--funny, deft with words, genially self-mocking and ever ready to step in before the discussion gets too heavy. His best plays, The Dining Room and The Middle Ages, have been set at social events and have had the rambling, episodic quality of witty but wayward conversation. Not surprisingly, a fiftyish college professor who fancies himself capable of shaping an ideal evening is at the center of Gurney's sprightly new puzzle box of a play, The Perfect Party...
...with his wife (Debra Mooney), snubs friends, forces drinks on the unwilling, tries to orchestrate the tempo of encounters, wages war against spontaneity. His every move is being judged by a remorselessly bitchy critic (Charlotte Moore) from a newspaper resembling the New York Times. Her very presence indicates that Gurney has metaphors in mind. Other hints include references to Oscar Wilde, whose epigrams the characters mimic, and a mounted portrait of Hawthorne, master of allegory...
Professor of Government Joseph S. Nye will be appearing several times a day on local NBC affiliate WBZ-TV, Channel 4, and Gurney Professor of History and Political Science Adam B. Ulam may also make an appearance on Channel 4 at 6 p.m. next Wednesday...
Adam B. Ulam, Gurney Professor of History and Political Science and director of the Russian Research Center, and Richard Pipes, Baird Professor of History, attended the luncheon meeting...
...Gurney Professor of English Literature Jerome Buckley called White "a quiet professional [who wrote with] eloquence and dignity...always informed [on any topic] from the gardens he and his wife liked so much, to observations on the quality of life, to the ethics of national behavior...