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...Flaubert's last novel, Bouvard and Pecuchet, two middle-aged copyists come into an inheritance and move to the countryside where they try their hand successively at farming, medicine, archaeology, history, literature, spiritualism, gymnastics, education, philosophy and religion and manage to fail at each and every one of them before finally resolving, after 40 years, to return to their work as copyists...
...less of an imbecile (and no less of a dilettante) than Bouvard and Pecuchet, I fear I might also have come to share this habit of theirs. Stupidity is a harsh word. To use it is to suggest that one speaks from a more enlightened plane, which in my case would be an absurdity comparable to Hitler's claim that he was a man of peace. What I can say is that the sheer strangeness of everyday life confuses...
Poets Marguerite Bouvard and SuzanneMatson--read from their latest works. Bostonpublic Library, Copley Square, Boston. Thursday,Feb. 20, 6 p.m. Free...
Standing out above all these performances, however, is Laurence Bouvard, a longtime Harvard theater veteran. As Dinah Lord, Tracy's younger sister, she convinces utterly. Even with her peripheral part, her energy dominated the opening night performance. Todd Burn produce as eccentric old Uncle Willie...
Radcliffe will induct the following seniors to their chapter: Margaret Ackerly of Cabot House, Elisabeth Bentely of Cabot House, Laurence A. Bouvard of Lowell House, Charleen T. Chu of Quincy House, Lisa R. Eskow of Mather House, Jacqueline D. Ewenstein of Kirkland House, Antonia E. Foias of Dunster House, Lisa Freinkel of Cabot House, Antonia Fried of Adams House, Jennifer L. Gordon of Dunster House, Reena B. Gordon of Dunster House, Marta Hoilman of Quincy House, Nora T. Jaskowiak of Winthrop House, Susanna L. Kim of Quincy House, Diane J. Klein of North House, Toby D. Kosowski of Quincy House...