Word: murcia
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Casona was born 53 years ago in the Asturias country in northwest Spain, but left home at an early age to attend high school and college in Murcia and Madrid. Imbued with a flair for the romantic and an avowed democrat politically, he was an ardent supporter of the Republican government in Spain and used his rapidly developing literary talents to aid its cause. After service in various important cultural positions, he was forced to flee the country in 1937 in the face of approaching Fascist armies...
...Spain, an unprecedented wave of religious fervor swept a country in which life, year by year, gets harder. From Málaga to Zamora and from Murcia to Pamplona, thousands of black-robed, black-hooded men, carrying a cross in one hand, a torch in the other, formed endless Holy Week processions. Madrileños also pushed baby carriages loaded with infants, black bread, sausage and wine into the country for Easter picnics, saw the Castilian plateau in an almost forgotten dress. Since 1942 central Spain has been brown and barren with drought. Last week the plain was alive with...