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What the play captures so well is the way in which a parent's frustrations and projected ambitions can poison a child's life.
Its momentum shattered, the extravagantly funded Washington Post Magazine limped along for a couple of years until the Post abandoned its grand financial and editorial ambitions and downscaled it.
Soon Spain found itself the recipient of immense wealth in the form of gold and silver, and the Spanish rulers, eager for more, turned their attention away from the Mediterranean and Ibiza towards both the New World and the heart of Europe, where Spanish ambitions rapidly expanded.
He spent years in a prison camp paying the price of those ambitions.
What makes Eleanor admirable, and lovable to some, is that her political ambitions did not arise purely from such a project of self-aggrandizement.