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A curious combination of comedies is the new presentation at the Poet's Theater. Eugene Ionesco's The Bald Soprano is almost pure farce, while The Lady and Her Sources, by the Spanish poet Pedro Salinas, is a sharply etched satire on professors and pedantry.
The evening starts with Salinas' hero, Professor Desiderio, being visited by a pretty young girl who claims to be the subject of the biography he is currently writing. The professor is suspicious, because his subject has been dead for a hundred years. A true historian, he says: "I, for example...
Transformation. The pull of Bootstrap has transformed Puerto Rican life; the dejection of the past is lost in new pride. A case in point is Salinas, on the south coast, once a drowsy and impoverished sugar town. In 1952 Paper-Mate opened a ballpoint-pen plant there, hired 400 workers...
Now in Salinas, to work for Paper-Mate is to be somebody. After work, in a tableau like a scene from Carmen, the girl penmakers, dressed in factory-provided blue smocks, parade their status through the streets. Drawing a sharp contrast with the old way, sheepish cane cutters often perform...
Ten peninsulas have now been cut off with eight-foot walls. A typical one, Punto Salinas, 73 miles north of Lima, has 70 acres of birds. Mostly black-and-white guanays (cormorants), they stand wing to wing like a rippling blanket. Though the colony was established only this year, it...