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When PBS adapted three John Cheever stories for TV in 1979, Playwright A.R. Gurney Jr. (The Dining Room, Scenes from American Life) seemed ideally suited to write one of the scripts. Gurney has been for the stage what Cheever was for fiction: the foremost chronicler of the foibles and angst of the Wasp upper middle class. The adaptation succeeded. But it also pointed up a significant difference between Cheever's striving suburbia and Gurney's blue- blood Buffa- lo: while many of Cheever's bedeviled characters are avidly accumulating, almost all of Gurney's etiolated aristocrats are watching the family...
According to Gurney Professor of English Literature Jerome H. Buckley. Vendler accepted the visiting professorship as an opportunity to test the waters at Harvard...
Professors have the option of refusing to give class time for CUE evaluations, as Gurney Professor of English Literature Jerome H. Buckley has done for the past two years Buckley teaches Literature and Arts A.12, "Great Novels of the 19th and Early 20th Centuries...
...Gurney's version, the precious papers are a lost chapter of The Great Gatsby in which Gatsby manages to bed Daisy Buchanan. Irene Worth is Fitzgerald's former mistress who protects that cache, and Jeff Daniels is an English instructor who will do anything, including going to bed with Worth's homely granddaughter (Stockard Channing), to obtain...
...Gurney (The Dining Room, The Middle Ages) has a sure sense of structure and an ear for dialogue. But his play is irreparably flawed where it veers away from the original. In James' story the old woman never mentions any letters and finds out only at the end what her boarder is after. "Ah, you publishing scoundrel!" she hisses. In Gurney's play, the woman demands that the young man write her biography and teases him with Fitzgerald's lost chapter. Her anger when he tries to sneak away with it makes no sense. Her character...