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Word: bezerra (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1960-1969
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Even more far-reaching is the change within nordestinos themselves. Says Recife Industrialist Renato Bezerra de Melo: "You feel a crazy desire on the part of everybody to learn-even among the illiterate. I can start any kind of course in my factory, and 200 workers will show up." In Rio Grande do Norte, one newly literate farm hand-still thrilled with the simple miracle of being able to read seed packages-explained why: "I have suddenly discovered that...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Hemisphere: Hope in the Northeast | 4/30/1965 | See Source »

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