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...Camino Real is Playwright Tennessee Williams' most agitated protest and least effective play. In it Williams is in flight, more than ever before, from theatrical realism. At the same time, he is appalled as never before by reality itself. Using the gaudiest of theater tricks-florid language, Hellzapoppin explosions, surrealist juxtapositions-he has shattered the familiar outer shell of life to reveal decadence and rottenness within. But in doing so, he has partly succumbed as a writer to what as a moralist he would expose...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Theater: New Play in Manhattan, Mar. 30, 1953 | 3/30/1953 | See Source »

...school in a Rome tenement, gave the kids freedom, to learn by themselves. There were knots to untie, stoppers to put into bottles. Soon the pupils were beginning to copy letters cut out of cardboard. One day a four-year-old boy, seeing the fireplace in the room, wrote "camino." In a few days, the other four-year-olds were learning to write...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Education: The First Progressive | 10/20/1947 | See Source »

Filipinos love such political jugglery. Though the election was a foregone conclusion, several minority candidates campaigned just for the fun of it. The best show was put on by gaudy, athletic Hilario Camino Moncado. Colorful Candidate Moncado, Philippine equivalent of Texas' Pappy O'Daniel, is married to pretty Diana Toy, onetime Hollywood bit player who is now Manila's favorite radio singer. He took his wife with him to rallies, looked on with a smile as she led his fervent followers in The Moncado March...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: TERRITORIES: Bedroom Campaign | 11/24/1941 | See Source »

Crosses mark the 120-mile desert trail from Sonoyta, Mexico, to San Luis, Ariz. Under the crosses are the corpses of wanderers who have died along its arid and terrible wastes. In Mexico it is called "El Camino del Diablo." Last week seven new crosses were put up on the Devil's Highway...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: ARIZONA: The Devil's Highway | 8/18/1941 | See Source »

Because I was the first white woman to have crossed this trail, the [Panama-Colombia] Boundary Commission was going to name the trail from Paya to Arquia in my honor by calling it El Camino de Alicia...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Letters, Jul. 14, 1941 | 7/14/1941 | See Source »

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