Word: perez
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...only three runs in the game came on three wind-lofted home runs, the last of which-a 375-ft. fly ball by Cincinnati's Tony Perez-gave the National League a one-run lead in the top half of the 15th inning. To preserve that lead in the bottom of the 15th, National League Manager Walter Alston did what seemed to be a foolish and romantic thing. He called on Righthand Pitcher Tom Seaver, 22, a smooth-cheeked rookie from the last-place New York Mets. A fly ball, a walk, another fly and a strikeout later, young...
...FUTILE LIFE OF PITO PEREZ, by José Rubén Romero. A great Mexican classic gets its first English translation. Pito Perez is a south-of-the-border Everyman, and his story illumines the national character of Mexico...
...FUTILE LIFE OF PITO PEREZ by José Rubén Romero, translated by William O. Cord. 151 pages. Prentice-Hall...
...World War II, a scandalous, enigmatic fictional scamp named Pito Perez suddenly loomed on the Mexican literary landscape. He was modeled after a real-life picaresque oddball named Jesús Pérez Gaona, and was immediately hailed as a personification of the national character. Bloody, absurd, splendid, his story seemed to mirror Mexico. The Futile Life of Pito Perez -his equivalent U.S. name would be something like Penny Whistle Jones-was not so much an instant bestseller as an immediate national classic. Its author, José Rubén Romero, became a figure of renown* But strangely, until...
Should Mexicans ever send a philosophical Peace Corps into the urban sprawl north of their own country, the missionaries will certainly carry in their saddlebags The Futile Life of Pito Perez. Meanwhile, Pito should be pressed into the hands of any tourists, State Department types or oilmen whose duties call them from the confident certitudes of U.S. life into the philosophical complexities that lie south of the border...