Word: bedford
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...fanatic flaw in Arnolphe, the protagonist of Wives, is that he is a wildly jealous man with a horrible fear of being cuckolded. Arnolphe (Brian Bedford) has had his intended wife Agnes (Joan Van Ark) posted to a convent from childhood, and now keeps her isolated from society in a town house guarded by two watchful servants. Arnolphe's master plan has been to keep Agnes innocent in body, and blank of mind. A young gallant wrecks the plan. Horace (David Dukes) catches sight of Agnes, falls in love with her, trysts with her and eventually wins...
...with horns on the brain, Brian Bedford is a comic marvel. His face is an ever-changing panorama of unholy glee, bottomless despair, and a sour-pickle sneer. With an unbroken, intuitive authority, he leads the way to the vital intersection of Molière's genius, the place where la vie tragique meets la vie triviale. The ultimate humanity of Molière is that he can make an audience laugh at a man's folly, then make the audience feel how that foolish man suffers, and finally make us all realize just who that suffering fool...
...past, summer projects which E4A has funded have included filmmaking classes for Navajo Indians, drug education programs in Bedford-Stuyvesant, rehabilitation by community craftsmen of low-income housing in the South End, distribution of fortified wheat to 52,000 Tunisians, and draft counseling in Cambridge...
...students with little or no success. During the two-week break of the Princeton Plan, exactly five students showed up to work. Only on November 3 did students from the Boston area really turn out, and they played an important part in getting out the vote in New Bedford...
...trouble with you kids," said the wife of a New Bedford politician well-acquainted with losing and winning, "is that if you lose once, you give up and quit. What do you ever expect to accomplish...