Word: jacaranda
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...Queen's subjects poured onto the tarmac of Salisbury Airport last week, but there were no leaders of society among them. For they were black, and had straggled in from the African townships of Harare and Highfield outside the city. They crowded onto balconies, perched in jacaranda trees, and clung to flagpoles around the airport building. More than 6,000 of them were squeezed in alight mass, hemmed in on one side by a 12-ft. wire fence, on the other by a cordon of police and their dogs. When the R.A.F. Comet whistled to a stop...
...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...