Word: bedford
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...York City courtroom. But The Briar Patch is weirdly overwritten. Kempton's high prose style often so veneers the drama that even the simple facts of the case become difficult to follow. The language sometimes seems a travesty of James or Gibbon undertaking to describe Harlem and Bedford-Stuyvesant. Kempton simultaneously affects engagement and disdainful detachment, and the result occasionally leaves him drifting over the events in a kind of rhetorical blimp, watching the ghetto through opera glasses...
...lifelong companion musically as well as personally. It is the latest in an imperiled series of major artistic collaborations. Britten, 59, recovering from open-heart surgery, was unable to attend rehearsals or take his customary place at the podium for the opera's premiere a fortnight ago. Steuart Bedford, an Aldeburgh regular, conducted in Britten's stead...
Robert Kennedy's vision outreached his program. He saw the slums and called for private investment to revitalize them, never doubting that the businessmen who had helped destroy the cities would be eager to rebuild them. His plans to resurrect Bedford-Stuyvesant in Brooklyn, started only by virtue of his personal resolve, are now in a shambles. The bombing in Asia he deplored -- without questioning the basic tenets of American foreign policy -- is still destroying villages and killing people. He never left behind his liberal convictions, never saw the evil about him as a logical outgrowth of the American system...
...Congress featured a series of workshops on Saturday, a speech by State Rep. Ronald Pina (D-New Bedford), and folk-dances and music by the Grupo Folclorico of Fall River...
Cambridge Mayor Barbara Ackermann, State Rep. Ronald A. Pina (D-New Bedford), and a representative from the office of Governor Francis A. Sargent will speak at the convention...