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Moynihan cautioned architects and city planners to avoid designing and building the sort of "lifeless city" he encountered in Brasilia, where "you feel that you are one of the plastic people that designers put on a model...
Adjoining Brasilia is an unplanned community called the "free city," where many construction workers live. "Nothing could be more fantastic than to move through Brasilia--a practically lifeless city--and then move over to the free city," he declared. "It roars, it sings, it makes love, it dies, and it is reborn...
...that point, Castello Branco flew into Rio from Brasilia for a hastily summoned conference with top army brass and ordered Arraes released. And that was that. After 386 days in jail, Arraes was freed. To be sure the message was not lost on the linha dura, Castello Branco also fired off orders to all military-inquiry boards to wrap up their business as soon as possible...
...hunk of white crystal on a 1,900-acre farm near Cristalina and hurried into town with the news. The reaction resembled The Gold Rush. The mayor, notary public, pharmacist and priest raced to the farm with the rest of the citizens hot on their heels. Laborers in nearby Brasilia threw aside their hods and streamed down the highway; so did lawyers, senators, civil servants, housewives and doctors...
...heart a generous man, their devotion inspired him to share even more of himself than the camera can frame. His first two books were gratefully received by the disciples, who installed both on the bestseller lists. This one takes his flock past the same datelines-Moscow, Papeete, Lambarene, Brasilia-that the Paar family, trailing minions, visited over the past few years. The writing has the flickering quality of home movies, for which John Reddy, the Reader's Digest staff writer and Paar pal who polishes the maestro's prose, must be held accountable. Paar himself is blameless...