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Those times of confrontation

At the end of the 1940’s my father, manager of a Swiss company, arrived in the country.  He threw me out of the home for being a ‘stone thrower’ at a school where leftist teachers were turning everyone into Marxists.  It’s an ideology that’s still in vogue today.   Armando […]

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Antigone’s monstrous protest

“Antigone”, an ancient Greek drama, tells the story of a dictatorial ruler, Creon, and a woman, Antigone, who challenges his injunction that her deceased brother, Polyneices, cannot be buried.   Sean Sheehan   Antigone and Polyneices are the children of Oedipus and, because she tries to bury her brother, her […]