Word: benedicts
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...Benedict and Richards, along with Bronia Stefan's insufferable but accurate portrayal of an American woman, have essentially static roles. The only character given a chance to change is Burris De Benning's Ferdinand, the "very young man" of the title. He gets to change from an overserious young man given to posing to a slightly more mature man, overserious and given to posing. De Benning ages the four years well enough but by the last scene I was no longer interested...
...with all this and at least makes watching the play tolerable. But he can't supply suspense and emotion where they don't exist. His actors read the overly precious lines as realistically as possible, and the humorous scenes are more successful than the painfully low high drama. Paul Benedict, with a comic deadpan, plays the resistance fighter husband of a wife from a crumbling aristocratic background. He's terribly funny but not strong enough to make his convictions plausible. Lisa Richards as his wife does an outstanding job with a whining, pathetic character...
...Commission, which investigated President Kennedy's assassination, used implausible means to achieve the seemingly impossible. A registered Democrat, he ran for district attorney on the Republican ticket, with the support of Americans for Democratic Action. Specter won, despite a 2-to-l Democratic registration edge and hoots of "Benedict Arlen" and "Specter the Defector" by his former Democratic colleagues. Specter not only assailed the inefficiency of Incumbent D. A. James
...broadens your outlook; you reason in a different way," said Lenwood Jackson from Morris Brown college in Atlanta, Ga. "Most of all, it teaches us to consider both sides of a question," said Thomas S. Martin from Benedict College in Columbia...
...music demonstration, Hortensio (Todd Drexel) at least actually plays the 'cello on stage. And when Lucentio (Robert Benedict) pretends to give Bianca a Latin lesson, "Hic ibat Simois," etc. has been supplanted by "Gallia est omnis," etc. on the undoubtedly accurate grounds that Caesar's De Bello Gallico will be more familiar to audiences than Ovid's Heroides. One wonders, however, why any of these three gentlemen would want to marry Bianca, for Geneva Bugbee makes her an insipid nullity...