Word: vogel
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...Learned to Drive Paula Vogel's brief, intense play explores the complex relationship between a young girl and the uncle who sexually abused her. Unsettling and unsparing in facing up to a difficult subject, this off-Broadway play is an actors' showcase (originally starring David Morse and Mary-Louise Parker) that will surely become a staple in regional theaters for years...
After the speech and two pre-selected questions, when the floor was opened for a single question from the audience to Jiang, Vogel silenced a questioner asking about a political prisoner. Instead he took a question from a Newsweek reporter about Jiang's reaction to the protests, another typical question he had been receiving during his visit...
...mock question-and-answer period preceding the arrival of the Chinese delegation (with Fairbank affiliates Professor of Chinese History Peter K. Bol, Kirby, Boston University Professor Merle Goldman, Vogel and non-Fairbank Elizabeth Perry) was in particularly poor taste...
...Discrimination based on nationality: While opening the floor for the question, Vogel proclaimed: "President Jiang Zemin has said that he would like to hear, first of all, from an American, and so...This is for an American audience." These words were spoken in an auditorium full of non- Americans, in the face of Rudenstine--with no reaction on his part...
...Vogel and the Fairbank Center for organizing a biased lottery, disseminating disinformation, silencing dissent, perpetrating discrimination on basis of nationality and putting personal ambition above academic standards...