Word: dramatic
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...Sept. 17, 1965). He likes to dream up puzzles based on Q words, paradoxes, homonyms, palindromes, anagrams, acronyms and acrostics, all of which require something more than a smidgin of esoteric knowledge. Explain this, he commands reading the same backward as forward - it is the short title of a dramat ic monologue, written in the late 1800s by a Portuguese eccentric named Baptista Machado...
Passion & Loathing. Lorca wrote 13 plays, but he was not in any usual sense a playwright. His best works-Yerma, Blood Wedding, The House of Bernarda Alba-are really prose poems, and no one of them has the kind of dramat ic power that seals an audience in its seat. Yerma is the story of a young peasant woman who yearns so passionately for a child that she finally murders her sterile husband, crying "But I have killed my son!" Blood Wedding is a study of one of the terrible family feuds that used to be waged generation after generation...