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Envenomed by repression, all the sisters fall madly in love with Pepe El Romano, who is engaged to the eldest, Angustias. Night after night the youngest, Adela, slips outside to make love to Pepe in a barn. The ugliest sister, Martirio, informs Bernarda. In an outburst of fury the widow shoots Pepe. Adela hangs herself...
Some kind of corrective legislation seems almost inevitable. But a sloppily-drawn measure would punish innocent universities as well as the guilty ones. Congress will have to be careful in wording the laws, so that it does not, in University Treasurer Paul C. Cabot's words, "burn down the barn to kill the rats...
...Barn. Christened Katherine Sage about a half-century ago, Kay left Albany for Italy when she was only three. In the '20s she married and divorced an Italian prince, later learned with Poet Andre Breton and Painter Yves Tanguy to ride the surrealist tide. In 1939 she returned to the U.S., closely followed by Tanguy, to whom she was married a year later. Today the two artists live in a pale yellow farmhouse near Woodbury, Conn, and paint in the barn...
Tanguy's half of the barn is as neat as an operating room. In it he does pictures of deserts strewn with bones, buttons, needles, nuggets, varicolored eggs and an occasional cactus-all impeccably painted. One such canvas hung in Manhattan's Museum of Modern Art last week. Its dramatic title, Mama, Papa Is Wounded!, bore no discernible relation to the objects represented...
...eighths inch sisal rope. The woman clerk who waited on him paid scant attention to the $11 sale. So far as she knew, the wispy customer was just another farmer, in town for the day, buying rope to break a balky horse or fix a hay lift in the barn...