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...Balaguer is moving forcefully-and with little coordinated political opposition to deter him. General Elias Wessin y Wessin, leader of the ultraright, remains in involuntary exile in Miami. Leftist Juan Bosch continues in voluntary exile in Spain. Meantime, their political movements within the country have splintered and all but disintegrated. Pleas by Wessin, Bosch and other opposition leaders for a heavy abstention on voting day were largely unheeded by the electorate...
...climax in 1963, when Dulavier ordered the American military mission, a single company of Marines who were training the army in police work, out of the country for "interference" in Haitian politics. A force of Haitian exiles, supported and armed by the new president of the Dominican Republic, Juan Bosch, stood poised on the border. Invasion forces were thought to be arming in Cuba, and a story circulated that Duvalier had reservations on a plane to Paris and was ready to flee the country...
...that cover. Oh God . . . Cruikshank . . . Daumier . . . Hieronymus Bosch? How inspired...
Asturias is a novelist of the poor and oppressed; he fills his books with the same gothic ribaldry and nightmarish fantasies that Hieronymus Bosch brooded on five centuries ago. In his latest novel, Mulata, published in the U.S. a month ago, boars talk, women are impregnated through the navel, men are transformed into dwarfs, giants or rocks. A healer tests the sacredness of a place by touching the earth "with the ten tongues of his hands." When an old woman dozes, she is "butterflying with sleep like all old people." When a crowd gathers, "nightfall assembled them...
What makes the final product so fresh and captivating is the skill with which Bearden employs his polyglot artistic heritage. His jigsaw Afro-American faces borrow their cubistic profiles from Picasso; yet, as Bearden says, Picasso in turn was inspired by African masks. Bearden also cadges tricks from Bosch, Brueghel and the neo-Dadaists, pasting a tiny sun in a woman's eye as she greets her returning juvenile-delinquent son (pun intended) in The Return of the Prodigal Son. All this intermingling has the effect of broadening his pictures from the specific into the universal. It takes...