Word: streetcars
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...people in these provinces had every opportunity to repudiate us,'' Frondizi said, "but they did not." Despite the hopeful signs, Per&243;nista rallies grew to impressive size. "Per&243;n or death!" slogans appeared on streetcar islands and walls. Framini, although an anti-Communist and a practicing Roman Catholic, began campaigning against Frondizi for selling out to "Yankee imperialism." Che Guevara's Red mother Celia showed up at Per&243;nista rallies, asking that"the voice of Cuba, sister of Per&243;nism, be heard." The Per&243;nistas had no need to ask what little...
...Iguana, by Tennessee Williams. On a Mexican veranda, four people who have come to the frayed rope end of life find the strength to go on. In its acceptance of human limitations, this is Williams' wisest play. As drama, it is his best play since A Streetcar Named Desire...
...Iguana, by Tennessee Williams. On a Mexican veranda, four people who have come to the frayed rope-end of life find the strength to go on. In its acceptance of human limitations, this is Williams' wisest play. As drama, it is possibly his best play since A Streetcar Named Desire...
After Menagerie, Williams went on to his biggest hit, 1947's A Streetcar Named Desire. Powerfully directed by Elia Kazan, it marked the beginning of the dynamic Williams-Kazan entente that would dominate Broadway for more than a decade. Ups and downs of critical approval never dampened the excitement of a Williams opening: 1948's Summer and Smoke, 1951's The Rose Tattoo, 1953's Camino Real, 1955's Cat on a Hot Tin Roof, 1957's Orpheus Descending, 1958's Garden District, 1959's Sweet Bird of Youth...
When Iguana opened in late December 1961, Williams proved to be in his best dramatic form since Streetcar, with the debatable exception of Cat. By echoing a strain of gentleness unheard since Menagerie, Iguana served to bracket the whole range of Williams' achievement, a body of work so substantial that it now casts a larger shadow than the man who made it. In that shadow lies a form of theater as well as a series of plays, the theater of Chekhovian sensibility mated with the Freudian irrational unconscious. The champion of the rival Ibsenite theater of social