Word: mosca
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...months ago, the 2,000-tree lemon and orange grove of Gabriel Ramirez, near Valles, on the Pan American Highway, was a rich and blooming place. Last week, like most orchards in the lush, hot valley, Ramirez' trees were soot-black with the leaf-ravaging larvae of the mosca prieta (citrus black...
Wily, wicked Volpone (the Fox) is a Venetian magnifico who pretends to be dying and to be deliberating on who shall be his heir. A crowd of voracious hopefuls rise to the bait, heap gifts upon him, satiate his own love of gold. With the help of his parasite, Mosca (the Fly), Volpone performs ever more devilish hoaxes upon his would-be heirs. In the end, duped and dupers alike are punished...
...real wit and imagination, Volpone and Mosca are exhilarating villains; their dupes are ludicrous victims. And Ben Jonson, the solidest playwright of his age, was possibly its finest rhetorician-a man who could give words color and weight, impact and grandeur...
...other parties agreed to nominate a Radical for the Presidency. On election day (Feb. 24) the coalition candidate opposing Peron will probably be either of two party chiefs, Dr. José P. Tamborini or Enrique Mosca...
...Hook, the Machiavellian position is unsound. Says he: "Behind the facade of logical argument in the writings of Mosca, Pareto and Michels, are two significant assumptions . . . that human na ture has a fixed and unalterable charac ter . . . that the amount of freedom and democracy in a society is determined by a law already known. Both assumptions are false." History, insists Hook, is made...