Word: juan
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...theme of Don Juan is also used throughout the play to good purpose in emphasizing the estrangement of the two artists from the rest of society. In the first part, Pushkin and his wife attend Don Giovanni. Pushkin admires Mozart because he, too, was a natural genius, and he admires the Don Juan theme because its hero is a man who "did not take things as they are." Pushkin's most famous poem, Eugene Onegin, is a treatment of that subject, and it is partly on this poem and partly on Byron's Don Juan that Lermontov bases the story...
...they later died in automobile accidents). King Alfonso was a known philanderer and, after going into exile, she and her husband lived apart. Only once did Queen Ena return to Spain-last year, when she accepted the role of godmother to her great-grandson, Prince Felipe, newborn son of Juan Carlos and Princess Sophie...
...often that one can eavesdrop on a totally fascinating four way conversation -- the ultimate in briliance being, I suppose, Bernard Shaw's "Don Juan in Hell" --but this is one of the rare examples. Although all four discussants get in their licks, there is no denying that Howard and Harding provide the most sparks. It is a joy to observe these two acute minds engaging and bouncing off each other, now clashing and now agreeing. Many people today speak at each other and call it "dialogue." Here one sees Howard and Harding really listening to each other and thinking...
...trade that Harrelson objected to was a three-player deal that sent him along with pitchers Dick Ellsworth and Juan Pizarro to Cleveland for catcher Joe Ascue and pitchers Sonny Siebert and Vincente Romo...
...situation, and if so, we blinked,"said a U.S. official in a back ground observation that was later contradicted by the State Department. Gen erally, however, the U.S. received the kind of welcome hemispheric hoorah that it seldom hears these days. Peru's President and junta head man, Juan Velasco Alvarado, greeted the news with a joyous statement: "Is this, or is this not, a benefit for the country...