Word: alonso
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...issue features poems by I. A. Richards, University Professor, Donald Hall, John Coolidge, Peter Heliczer, John Hollander, Richard Howard, Arthur Freeman, and Roger Morse, and short stories by Juan Alonso, and Guy Davenport...
Female Performance: Louise Bell, as Gloria in Alonso's "Death of Don Juan"; Phyllis Ferguson, as the sister-in-law in Kaufman's "Babylon Revisited"; Lee Jeffries, as Sally in "Six Strings...
This was an exaggeration. Though Opus Dei members do not advertise their membership, they may not conceal it, and the new Cabinet contains only one full-fledged member (Commerce Minister Alberto Ul-lastres) and three "cooperators"-Mariano Navarro Rubio (Finance), Cirilo Canovas (Agriculture), and Lieut. General Camilo Alonso Vega (Interior). But this was enough to focus a spotlight on the organization long regarded among suspicious Spanish Jesuits as "the White Masons...
...Alonso's central idea is very interesting. His Don Juan is neither Mozart's energetic young lover proud enough to defy God, nor Shaw's immortal philosopher. Instead, he is an ageing man who, even though as the son of an angel he possesses the power to charm all woman, has never found a single woman he could love. The play shows his last attempt to find love, and its pattern is the tragedy of hope in the face of certain defeat...
...last try at love. The almost inevitable time for him to demonstrate that he indeed still possesses such a reserve is in a love scene with the heroine, a scene showing how he wins her on the eve of her marriage. But perhaps because of its very inevitability, Mr. Alonso has refused to write such a scene, and as a result Juan just never comes to life enough to make his story appear the tragedy it is supposed to be. By sheer force of personality, the jilted bridegroom dominates the play, thus damaging both its perspective and meaning...