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General Editor's Note Preface Introduction Interviews A. R. GurneyJohn Cunningham Holland Taylor Debra Mooney John Tillinger Essays"Indeterminacy as Tragic Fate: Issues of Race, Class, Gender, and SexualOrientation in Gurney," Mark William Rocha "Where Does the WASP Keep ItsSting? The Dynamics of Anger in the Plays of A.R. Gurney" Ervene Gulley"The Dining Room: A Tocquevillian Take on the Decline of WASP Culture"Bruce McConachie "What I Did Last Summer: Realizing One's Potential" LauraMiller "Absent Fathers, Transient Sons: Miller, Inge, and Gurney" Arvid F.Sponberg "Entering the Fourth Dimension: Gurney"s Sweet Sue" Brenda Gordon"The Allusive A. R. Gurney" Brenda Murphy "Gurney's Sylvia: What Oft WasThought" JoAllen Bradham "Inge, Gurney, and Northrop Frye's 'The Argumentof Comedy'" Arvid F. Sponberg Articles by A.R. Gurney "A Sacred Place,"Journal of Architectural Education, November 1975 "Pushing the Walls ofDramatic Form," The New York Times, July 27, 1986 "The Dinner Party,"American Heritage. 39 (September-October 1988) "Conversation Piece,"Newsweek, June 26, 1989 "Critical Condition," American Theatre. June 1991,24-7 "When the Final Act Is Only the Beginning," The New York Times, October27, 1991 "Shaw, the Eternal Schoolmaster, Can Still Be Wise," New YorkTimes, January 31, 1993 "Coming Home to a Musical That Sounds LikeAmerica," The New York Times, September 8, 1996 Afterword: A Cue for A.R.Gurney Chronology Bibliography