Word: abertura
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...long-awaited step in the country's slow return to democracy, which has been carefully controlled by the military. Since the generals came to power in a 1964 coup, five of their number have served as President. But the last two generals have been gradually carrying out an abertura, or political opening, which has included amnesty for political prisoners, a partial lifting of censorship and more opposition-party participation in government. The results of the conventions, however, could signal not only the end of military control but the beginning of rule by an opposition party. The Brazilian Democratic Movement...
...exempt from the democratic process: Brazil's fifth consecutive military-appointed President, João Baptista Figueiredo, 64, who will not step down until 1985. Before the voting, Figueiredo, a folksy, blunt-spoken former cavalry general, hailed the elections as a vindication of his three-year policy of abertura (opening), the promise of a slow and gradual return of democratic freedom to Brazil. Said he: "We're going to stuff the opposition with democracy until they get indigestion...
...only familiar work on the well balanced program, the Sibelius Fifth Symphony, written in the distant past of 1915, was given an adequate reading. Following the intermission, Camargo Guarnieri, Brazilian composer, conducted the orchestra in-his own new "Abertura Concertante" while not particularly remarkable or inspired, is pleasant and diverting. And knee-deep in a mid-western drawl, engrossed in his Lincolnian stance, speaker Will Geer skillfully assisted she BSO in the local premiere of Aaron Copland's "A Lincoln Portrait" to conclude the concert...
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