Liberal arts college-educated readers will be familiar with (possibly to the point of annoyance at the mere mention of) the death of the canon, the texturing of dead white dude-dominated curricula with women and minorities. When did this taken-for-granted feature of contemporary college life come into being? Well, in the 70s, on campuses just like the one in A.R. Gurney's new comedy about the sexing up of our universities' syllabi against a backdrop of cultural crisis not unlike our own.