Word: argentinean
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...playwright Vargas, oppression under the 1970s Argentinean dictatorship served as the inspiration for “Jardín de Pulpos”; during this time, murdered students’ bodies were tossed into the sea and onto the beach, the beach where Vargas’ play...
...playwright Vargas, oppression under the 1970s Argentinean dictatorship served as the inspiration for “Jardín de Pulpos”; during this time, murdered students’ bodies were tossed into the sea and onto the beach, the beach where Vargas’ play...
...This unspoken tension lies at the heart of Argentinean author Julio Cortázar’s novel “Hopscotch,” one of the most beautiful, complex portraits we have of the idealism and subsequent disillusionment of that decade. Cortázar—a literary heavyweight in Latin America, associated with the prolific Boom period of the 60s and 70s—wrote “Hopscotch” in 1963, after his move to France to escape dictator Juan Domingo Perón, and its Left Bank influences are clear. In stunningly tactile prose...
...Vinas' Peruvian-born father and Argentinean-born mother divorced when he was a teenager. Instead of going to college, Vinas joined the U.S. army...
...Third, an overly scientific approach to politics makes even the most colorful characters appear gray. Former House Ways and Means Committee Chairman Wilbur Mills was an alcoholic who cavorted with an Argentinean stripper—you couldn’t make him boring. Yet, John Manley comes close in his research, outlining the theory behind “Congressional influence” instead of letting Mills illustrate it: “When one thinks about power between A and B there is a tendency to view the relationship as unidirectional,” Manley intones. “With influence...