Word: tapia
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...best, Bowles has no peer in his sullen art, and he offers here two superb stories of despair that prove it. One, The Frozen Fields, shows how a father's hostility slowly corrodes the brain of a small boy. The other, Tapia-ma, follows an American photographer to the end of his skid. It is a masterwork on the psychology of the dropout, an exemplary model of existentialism in the service of fiction. Utterly bored, the photographer drifts through Latin America and slips into drunkenness at a sinister plantation bar. Unconsciously, he falls victim to conspiracy, accident, destruction. "What...
Some Time in 1965. As a front for their regime, the military lined up a junta of three civilians: Emilio de los Santos, 65, former president of the electoral college, who becomes presiding member; Manuel Enrique Tavares Es-paillat, 39, an engineer; Ramon Tapia Espinal, 37, a former member of the interim regime that ruled after the Trujillos. At the swearing-in, the new government promised elections some time in 1965. In his first TV speech, De los Santos made a pitch for U.S. recognition and continued economic...