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Garcia Lorca's heroine, Yerma (derived from the Spanish word yermo, meaning barren), is a symbol of the life force frustrated by morality. Longing for children, unable to conceive them with her husband and unwilling to attempt infidelity, she laments with truly operatic passion. Finally, when her husband admits that he is sterile and has used her for sexual rather than procreative purposes, she strangles...
Incomes policies would surely be harder to enforce in the U.S. than in smaller, more homogeneous nations. And critics contend that such policies have never worked for long even in those countries. Yet the record is by no means barren, especially over the short run. Last year Canada's Price and Incomes Commission had to abandon its short-lived wage and price guidelines because unions would not go along. Still, the commission had considerable success in persuading companies to temper the rate of price increases and was partly responsible for lowering Canada's 1970 inflation rate to 2.3% from...
...outposts turned over to Saigon last week was Charlie 2, a barren hilltop four miles south of the DMZ. Last May, when it was still the home of 500 G.I.s, a single Communist rocket slammed into one overcrowded bunker at Charlie 2, killing 30 and wounding 32 inside...
...makes the boy, played by Bjorn Andresen, a flirt whose eyes flash a come-on to his helpless elder, like some midnight cowboy off the Via Veneto. He even concocts an elaborate bordello scene in which Aschenbach is shown as a heterosexual failure-a moment that proves as barren of meaning as it is of style...
Georgia O'Keeffe, L.H.D., painter. Like the desert plants you paint, you flourish in hardy surroundings, irrigating apparently barren territory with visionary insight. You have shown that great gifts can be tough and womanly, lyrical and enduring...