Word: barnful
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Hospitality. In Kansas City, Landlord Oren W. Breidenthal was hauled to court by building inspectors, who had found four families living in the basement of his house, five families on the first floor, five families on the second, six families in the attic, six families in the barn, and one in a trailer on the lawn...
...Cause. The youth of Riofreddo, who had feared that Catholic Action would be rather dull, loved the idea. The reluctant few were convinced by the monitory appearance of Father Francesco's green umbrella before their doors. Arturo Vasselli, the carpenter, volunteered to construct a rough stage in a barn. The play chosen was Le Pistrine (the name of the prisons where early Christian martyrs waited their turn to be thrown to the lions...
...Senator's Daughter. Meanwhile, at the barn the show went on. The actors looked magnificent in their red robes and cardboard helmets. Who cared if now & then they glanced at the scripts in their hands? The play concerned a Roman senator who is to make a speech in favor of the Christians. Pagan priests kidnap the senator's daughter (played by Riofreddo's only blonde). Caffari, the bootmaker, playing the senator's role, lifted trembling hands to heaven. Said he: "Though my daughter shall suffer, I will do my duty and speak! I am a Christian...
...this happy moment a wild shout was heard at the back of the barn. The audience turned to see allegory brought up to date. Brandishing a long broom, Maria Conti rushed in behind her Communist husband. "If you think you can keep me just listening to your ideas when it's my duty to occupy an important official post," she shouted, "you'll have to buy me a new broom...
...been admitted to the National Institute of Arts & Letters but thinks little of some of his colleagues ("Those slobwogs!"). Last year, he won a Pulitzer Prize for his Third Symphony, unplayed for 36 years while the manuscript gathered dust in his barn. After receiving the prize, he granted a rare newspaper interview. When a reporter congratulated him, he refused to shake hands, roared: "Prizes, bah! What do I care for prizes! They are the badge of mediocrity...