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George F. Walker (born August 23, 1947 in Toronto, Ontario) is a Canadian playwright and screenwriter. He is one of Canada's most prolific playwrights, and also one of the most widely produced Canadian dramatists both in Canada and internationally. August 23 is the 235th day of the year in the Gregorian Calendar (236th in leap years), with 130 days remaining. ... 1947 was a common year starting on Wednesday (link will take you to calendar). ... Motto: Diversity Our Strength Map of Ontario Counties, Toronto being red Area: 641 sq. ... A playwright is an author of plays for performance in the theater. ... Screenwriters, scenarists or script writers, are authors who write the screenplays from which movies are made. ...


His screen credits include Due South, The Newsroom and This is Wonderland. Due South was a Canadian television police drama, following the adventures of a fictional Mountie living and working in Chicago. ... The Newsroom is a Canadian television dramedy series which ran on the CBC in the 1996-1997 and 2003-2004 seasons. ... This is Wonderland is a Canadian drama television series produced by the CBC, about Alice De Raey, played by Cara Pifko, a young criminal lawyer thrown into a chaotic justice system encountering characters which include the truly desperate to the bizarre. ...


In 1997, he published a cycle of six new plays, all of which took place in the same suburban motel room. 1997 is a common year starting on Wednesday of the Gregorian calendar. ...


Plays

  • Beyond Mozambique (1974)
  • Zastrozzi (1977)
  • Gossip (1977)
  • Filthy Rich (1979)
  • Theatre of the Film Noir (1981)
  • The Art of War (1983)
  • Criminals in Love (1984)
  • Better Living (1986)
  • Beautiful City (1987)
  • Nothing Sacred (1988)
  • Love and Anger (1989)
  • Escape from Happiness (1991)
  • Tough! (1993)
  • Suburban Motel (1997): Problem Child, Criminal Genius, Risk Everything, Adult Entertainment, Featuring Loretta, The End of Civilization
  • Heaven (2000)

1974 is a common year starting on Tuesday (click on link for calendar). ... 1977 was a common year starting on Saturday (the link is to a full 1977 calendar). ... 1977 was a common year starting on Saturday (the link is to a full 1977 calendar). ... This page refers to the year 1979. ... 1981 is a common year starting on Thursday of the Gregorian calendar. ... 1983 is a common year starting on Saturday of the Gregorian calendar. ... 1984 is a leap year starting on Sunday of the Gregorian calendar. ... 1986 is a common year starting on Wednesday of the Gregorian calendar. ... 1987 is a common year starting on Thursday of the Gregorian calendar. ... 1988 is a leap year starting on a Friday of the Gregorian calendar. ... 1989 is a common year starting on Sunday of the Gregorian calendar. ... 1991 is a common year starting on Tuesday of the Gregorian calendar. ... 1993 is a common year starting on Friday of the Gregorian calendar and marked the Beginning of the International Decade to Combat Racism and Racial Discrimination (1993-2003). ... 1997 is a common year starting on Wednesday of the Gregorian calendar. ... This article is about the year 2000. ...

Works About George F. Walker

  • Chris Johnson, Essays on George F. Walker: Playing with Anxiety. Winnipeg: Blizzard Publishing Inc., 1999
  • Craig Walker, "George F. Walker: Postmodern City Comedy," The Buried Astrolabe: Canadian Dramatic Imagination and Western Tradition. Montreal: McGill-Queen's University Press.

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George F. Kennan - definition of George F. Kennan in Encyclopedia (630 words)
George Frost Kennan (born February 16, 1904) was for many years a member of the United States Foreign Service.
As a foreign policy planner in the late 1940s and 1950s, he is considered to have been the "architect" of the Cold War with his call for containment of the Soviet Union.
In 1947, George C. Marshall put Kennan in charge of policy planning at the State Department, where Kennan advocated the containment policy, most famously with an anonymous article, titled "The Sources of Soviet Conduct" but better known as the "X article", in the July 1947 Foreign Affairs.
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