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...play is about--well, it's about what Tennessee Williams is about: poetry, the search for God, homosexuality. As one of the characters in the play says, the poet is his work, the work is the poet. It's about Sebastian Venable, a middle-aged homosexual poet who produced one long, privately-published poem a year. He travelled each summer with his mother in order to write the poem. One summer--last summer--he took his cousin Catherine instead, and died under mysterious circumstances...
Some Coincidence. Pondering all this, Padre Pedro Solano, the town's priest, fell back on what he called "the weapons of faith." He decreed a daily penitential procession in which townspeople shouldered a statue of St. Sebastian, the guardian against plague, and asked him to deliver them from crickets. After the initial procession of 500 hopeful believers, the insect horde slackened. After the third came a torrential rain that helpfully washed away countless cricket corpses and held down further attacks...
Last week the crickets seemed to have disappeared and a final procession ended with a Mass of thanksgiving to St. Sebastian. "I'm not one of your fanatical Catholics," said Town Radio Operator Waldir de Barros Correia. "But if it wasn't St. Sebastian, it was one hell of a coincidence." As many as ten other towns in the area reported infestations, however, and in two of them church services had to be halted for the first time in memory because the crickets' chirping drowned out the priests...
...which can devour 300 cricket nymphs a night. But for four years in Brazil's Northeast, toads have been hunted for skins, which sell well in the U.S. to make purses, belts and watchbands. Without toads, the cricket population exploded. Until the two get into equilibrium again, St. Sebastian has his work...
Rumors began circulating several weeks ago, when Foreign Minister Gregorio Lopez Bravo arrived in San Sebastian, Spain's summer capital. Generalissimo Francisco Franco, Chief of State, was vacationing on his yacht at Vigo and had summoned Lopez Bravo to discuss a restoration of the monarchy after a lapse of 40 years. The step is part of Franco's deliberate attempt to relinquish gradually his absolute powers. In July 1969, as the first move in that direction, the Caudillo named Juan Carlos to be Prince of Spain. Next, Franco overhauled the Spanish Cabinet, substituting younger, more moderate personalities...