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...sultry tragedy of village life, it centers around the bigoted, domineering Widow Bernarda Alba. After the funeral of her second husband, she shuts her five daughters off from the outside world for eight years of mourning...
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...
Freebooter's victory made Owner Lurline Brotherton, widow of a Leeds chemical manufacturer, the "happiest woman in Britain." The British bettors were happy too: Freebooter, at 10 to 1, was the first favorite to win the race since...
Campaign headquarters for the fight was the tapestried salon of Madeleine Sylvain Bouchereau, Ph.D. (Sociology, Bryn Mawr), onetime UNRRA welfare officer in Germany and president of the Ligue. Sitting erect on a brocaded chair, Madame Alice Garoute, 75, widow of a Supreme Court justice, sounded the battle cry: "We must make parades, demonstrations! They can shoot down eight of us-but they can't shoot down 800!" She confided later: "I don't care a bit if they shoot me, but I really wouldn't like to go to prison-I detest sleeping in little rooms...
Young Mary Pomfret and Philip Weatherby are office workers who are supposed to be in love but court each other as if they were filling out government forms. Instead of making love, they gossip about their scandalous parents, Widower Pomfret and Widow Weatherby, who had a torrid affair years back. Philip and Mary feel obliged to worry whether they may not be half brother and sister...