Word: bosh
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Today the people of the Dominican Republic will participate in what promises to be the second "free" election in their island's history. The first one, held in 1962, made Professor Juan Bosh President of the Republic. Within seven months, a military coup made him a private citizen again...
...irony is Brechtian, without political reference; Grass is more concerned with moral character than social institutions. At one extreme his irony is angry, grotesque, a mingling of Bosch and bosh-as when he writes of a museum where...
...Murray Schisgal sees life as a sickness from which most people recover, and he amusingly deflates the gassy, self-pitying bosh that is said about it. Alan Arkin, Eli Wallach and Anne Jackson ride this troika of hilarity...
...Murray Schisgal sees life as a sickness from which most people recover, and he amusingly deflates the gassy, self-pitying bosh that is talked about it. Alan Arkin, Eli Wallach and Anne Jackson ride this troika of hilarity...
Scenes, character and incidents shrink from one another like people trapped in an elevator trying not to inhale. A large part of the book is amusing, fragmented, pointless reminiscence by the writer. Another part is solemn bosh about time and reality. One character is admired for having escaped into the past, apparently because he lives (he is not dead after all) in a troll-infested castle. Another runs a progressive school in which the past is ignored on the ground that if it had any value, it would not be past. People go around saying things like...