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Plans for Reform. He is Juan Bosch. 53, a novelist, journalist and longstanding political friend of such charter members of the Latin American "democratic left'' as Puerto Rico's Governor Luis Munoz Marin and Venezuela's President Romulo Betancourt. Like Munoz Marin, Bosch has great plans for reforming and developing his island country. Like Betancourt, he spent much of his life in exile plotting revolution-and then modified his views in favor of constitutional government...
...largely self-educated Bosch left the Dominican Republic in 1937, disgusted with Trujillo after "The Benefactor" personally ordered the massacre of 15,000 Haitian squatters. With Cuba as a headquarters, Bosch organized his political party, traveled widely throughout Latin America as an unofficial emissary of the anti-Communist left...
Hounded out of Cuba in 1958 by Dictator Fulgencio Batista, Bosch did not return when Dictator Castro took power. "I don't say I knew he was a Communist." says Bosch. "But I felt he was not a democrat. I was afraid of what might happen...
...Little Theatrical." Stern develops an ulcer, ''a hairy, coarse-tufted little animal within him that squawked for nourishment," and is sent to a nightmarish rest home populated by a brilliant set of grotesques that might be right out of Hieronymus Bosch. Stern emerges to have a nervous breakdown, which Author Friedman manages to make both hugely comic and horrendously real...
Bergson & Bosch. If Cancer was an old world debauch, Capricorn is a kind of New World Sinphony. an account of Author Miller's coming of age in New York City (1900-23). Incredibly garrulous and grotesque, the book is a disordered Horatio Alger story: escape from a poor Brooklyn boyhood, as it might have been written by Harpo Marx and Hieronymus Bosch working together. Wild philosophic maunderings sprinkled with a self-taught man's self-conscious display of highfalutin' acquaintances (Bergson, Nietzsche. Whitman) proclaim Miller's belief in the sovereignty of the heart over the mind...