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...WENDY SHAY...
...Cover: Photomontage by Robert S. Crandall from a photograph by Arthur Shay. The sculpture, Wedding Rings, is by Bulgaria's Svetoslav Djalazov...
...from the White House, the Nixons have permitted, though they did not officially sponsor, what may well be the sprightliest exhibition of contemporary art in town. There, a plain gray plywood fence had been built around Lafayette Park while construction work is going on. Depressed by the sight, Jane Shay, a staffer at the nearby National Trust for Historic Preservation, organized a one-day paint-in by a group of Washington high school art students. The result was a half-mile mural in which green trees, pink pigs, pilgrims, bare-breasted Indian maidens and parades mingle with a modicum...
...Revolution, a prime example, was followed by farmer uprisings over debts and taxes-the Shay and Whisky rebellions. In the mid-1800s, the nativist Know-Nothings fought rising Irish political power by killing Roman Catholics, burning churches and ultimately controlling 48% of the House of Representatives. In 1863, the Irish, fearing that Negroes would take their jobs while they were drafted into the Civil War, conducted a frightful race riot in New York City that killed an estimated 2,000 people and injured 8,000. The Civil War killed 500,000 soldiers-the equivalent of 3,000,000 in today...
Phillip Thomas, the son, lives with Alice Shay, an impenetrable girl whose dead brother Raymond used to be Phillip's best friend, or, as Alice insinuates, maybe more than that. Phillip is extremely protective about his sister Lisa, who in turn lives with Martin, who is about the only straightforward character in the play...