Word: casona
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...darkness just before midnight, columns of tanks and troop carriers rumbled into the streets of four Venezuelan cities last week, intent on overthrowing the civilian government. Paratroops and armored units in Caracas, the capital, converged on a nearby air base, the Miraflores presidential palace and La Casona, the official residence of President Carlos Andres Perez...
...speeches and newspaper ads was blunt: "THANK GOD, THEY ARE FINALLY GOING." It was also prophetic. As celebrating citizens jammed the streets of Caracas last week, the results of Venezuela's sixth free presidential election in 25 years overwhelmingly confirmed that the ele gant presidential residence, La Casona, would be getting a new tenant. By a thumping 8-to-5 margin, voters had ousted the centrist Social Christian Party in favor of the country's strongest grass roots political force, the center-left Action Democratica under its amiable, soft-spoken leader, Jaime Lusinchi, 59. Said an exuberant Lusinchi...
Since that time he has lived in Argentina and produced some nine plays, all of which exhibit the optimism, poetry, and drama that have endowed his life with a richness beyond what his Spanish environment could warrant. From Casona's early ventures in poetry we see in all his later work a romantic, fictitious atmosphere, sprinkled with metaphors and emotional stimuli...
...kidnapping moral? Is deceit laudable? Does the end justify the means? The answer is yes in the fantasy world offered by the Tufts Arena this week: the New England premiere of The Jacaranda Tree, by the 53-year-old Spanish playwright Alejandro Casona...
...many of his other plays, this one is a comedy-fantasy with serious underpinning; it is a sort of religio-moral allegory in which people "practice charity the poetic way" by doing "welfare work for the soul" through illusion, collusion and delusion. The idea yields an intriguing story, but Casona tends to create character stereotypes instead of individuals (even introducing irrelevant personages for their gimmick potential in act one). Although Casona may at times hammer his points too strongly, he has sprinkled the play with witty epigrams, e.g.: "But, Grandmother, architects don't build old houses-time does," or "When...