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Article: Eastern Standard. (Manhattan Theater Club, New York )
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- The Nation
- Article date:
- December 12, 1988
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Richard Greenberg, the 30-year-old author of Eastern Standard, like Weller, aspires to tell a story that can be understood as a scale model for our time and kind, but he represents a very different milieu. In an interview in The New York Times Greenberg speaks of growing up on Long Island in "a highly middle- class environment," and Eastern Standard has been characterized by both those who applaud and who denigrate it as a salute to yuppiedom. In calling himself middle-class, Greenberg employs a common evasion, for unless "upper-class" is to refer only to Rockefellers and royalty, then the society Greenberg springs from and sings of is surely upper class; lowerupper, if ...