Word: juan
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After whisking Aramburu from his modest Buenos Aires apartment, the kidnapers advised the military government of Juan Carlos Ongania that a "revolutionary court" had decreed death for their captive. He was guilty, they claimed, of sending 27 Peronists before firing squads for having attempted a coup against his government in 1956. (In fact, Aramburu was on a back-country trip at the time; his Vice President, Isaac F. Rojas, ordered the executions...
...terrorists called themselves the "Juan Jose Valle Command," in memory of the Peronist general who led the abortive 1956 coup. But their actual identity and political orientation remained in doubt. Peronist leaders hotly denied involvement, and from his exile in Madrid, 74-year-old Juan Peron warned that the killing of Aramburu could plunge Argentina into civil war, which is exactly what the terrorists seemed to want. Taking advantage of the disorder, 6,000 workers in Cordoba seized eight automobile plants to dramatize their demands for higher wages. In Buenos Aires, Dictator Ongania dramatically reinstated the death penalty -banned since...
Where stands Don Juan in the sexual revolution? Like Faust, he is one of the archetypes of Western culture -snapping his fingers at human decency and God's law, acting out man's secret fantasy of seduction as a way of life. Punishment was necessary, of course; hell ultimately yawns for him in many of the legend's countless versions, with a macabre assist from a stone statue stamping after him for vengeance. A sense of wickedness, though, depends on an accepted set of rules and values. In the permissive, post-Christian world, the idea of seduction...
Thus, it is all the more creditable that Director Robert Brustein and the Yale Repertory Theater have produced a version of Moliere's Don Juan that is significant to a contemporary audience. As George Bernard Shaw pointed out, the prototypical Don Juan was proposed in legend as the enemy of God, and Translator Kenneth Cavender uses this phrase as the play's subtitle, instead of Moliere's "The Feast of the Statue." Brustein goes further, presenting the Don as not merely a sex-obsessed boudoir-supremacist womanizing his way to damnation, but as a supranatural embodiment...
...they're going to have Tom Eisenstadt march with the sword," he added. "Where is he going to get a sword unless he borrows one from the Don Juan Drum and Bugle Corps...