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...Regina Engstrand (Donna Manley) holds the same position--housekeeper for Mrs. Alving--that her own mother did before her death. The education and refinement she has culled from living in this cosmopolitan home conflicts with the behavior of her offensive step-father, Jacob (Harry Cooper). He frequently reminds his daughter about the duty a child owes a father, although this is some what muffled beneath his deliberately garbled gruffness...
Despite his unclear speech, Cooper brilliantly portrays Mr. Engstrand as a crotchety, aged carpenter with every-moving eyebrows, a lame leg, and discomfited facial expressions. Although by he is her father, Engstrand's ill-mannered ways and frequent machinations lead Regina to despise...
...Bedford, a liberal-minded prosecutor in a small Southern town who is raising three children on his own. (His wife has been hospitalized after a nervous breakdown; Forrest, meanwhile, is growing friendly with a rival lawyer, played by Kathryn Harrold.) The family has just hired a new maid, Lily (Regina Taylor), who becomes the focus for an exploration of changing race relations at a crucial historical time...
...psychology at the State University of New York, Buffalo, very sensibly notes, "It's a dramatic piece, not a ((literal)) description of what's going on in our society. It seems to me that drama is supposed to make things larger than life so you get the point." Agrees Regina Barreca, who teaches English at the University of Connecticut and is the author of They Used to Call Me Snow White but I Drifted, a book about women and humor: "It has got to be seen not as a cultural representation but as a fairy tale." In other words...
What's wrong with housing the excess books in the basement of Weld? How about the unoccupied Pizzeria Regina building? Maybe the spacious Pi Eta club would open its doors to some of the Widener overflow, perhaps even to books written by women...