Word: bedford
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...marry him, the ferocious young man flees the Heights with a vague plan to wreak vengeance on the world. No sooner does he reach London than he joins a mob wrecking a house in Bloomsbury Square. The work invigorates him: "I longed to cross the square and start on Bedford House, then begin elsewhere, until I had demolished every great house in London; after which I'd unleash myself on the provinces and not quit till I had the razing of all such dwellings from Land's End to Carlisle. And maybe Scot land...
There are sections of the city which can match any slum in the world for terrible conditions. Bush-wick--block after block of burned-out buildings and garbage-filled empty lots--looks like a city bombed to rubble in World War Two. East New York, Oceanhill-Brownsville, Bedford-Stuyvesant and other ghettoes are a dark stain on the pages of our society. How can such deprivation exist among general affluence...
Hardly anybody wanted the grimy, torn portrait of an aged, slightly paunchy George Washington that for years had been hanging around New Bedford, Mass. The local Boys Club, which owned it, lent it in the 1950s to the town's First National Bank, which put it in storage. That deeply upset Jacob Rubin, 82, a Russian-born furniture maker, who was worried that the painting was "going to wrack and ruin." On behalf of the Boys Club-of which he is a director and benefactor-Rubin tried to sell the portrait. He got no takers-even after he lowered...
Then fortune struck. James Brewer III, an art restorer from Durham, Pa., breezed into New Bedford early this year, saw the painting and said it might well be the work of the master American portraitist, Gilbert Stuart. Stuart Biographer Charles Merrill Mount came by to take a close look and declared that Brewer was right and after some restoration the portrait could be worth $500,000. The painting was "certainly the most important discovery of my lifetime," rhapsodized Mount. "This is the top of American paintings...
...painting resembles a known Stuart portrait of Washington, but, argues Sadik, who has admittedly seen only a black and white photograph of the work: "The quality isn't there. Stuart could paint beautifully. Whoever painted the New Bedford picture just couldn't paint that well." Moreover, says Sadik, "Stuart would never have painted such a dumb-looking Washington...