Word: jacaranda
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...after day, in the shade of the great jacaranda tree outside the courthouse at Nyeri, an old woman squatted, moodily scratching the vermin beneath her filthy rags. Inside, on trial for his life before a British judge and a jury of three Kikuyu elders from his native village, was her son, Dedan Kimathi, 36, self-styled Field Marshal, Knight Commander of the African Empire, President of the Parliament of Kenya and Commander in Chief of the Land Liberation Army, the man once feared through all Kenya as the leader of some 10,000 Mau Mau terrorists...
From the shade beneath the jacaranda tree the old woman in rags stared at her son's Kikuyu judges and spat in the dust...
Alejandro Casona, author of The Jacaranda Tree, currently running at the Tufts Arena Theatre, has led a life as eventful and passionate as any character he has created...
...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...
...pretty but sad-eyed teen-age girl hobbled on crutches into the office of the President of Brazil one day last week. President Joāo Café Filho greeted her with a smile, pointed to a chair beside his ornate jacaranda-wood desk. Lucilla Carvalho sat down and told her story. Her leg had been amputated in an effort to halt cancer, and doctors had told her she would die unless she went to the U.S. for treatment. Could the President help...