Word: brazil
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Ingratiatingly, alluringly, the Russians last week used the tools of trade and culture to turn Latin American eyes and aspirations away from the U.S., toward the U.S.S.R. The response from both Brazil and Chile gave the Communists cause to take heart...
While Kubitschek spent for its future greatness, Brazil suffered. The treasury deficit rose $240 million in the first eight months of the year. The cruzeiro hit a low of 96.5 to the dollar last month; living costs rose 20% yearly...
Brasilia's advocates acknowledge the immediacy of the criticism, reply that in the long run the future capital will have an opposite effect; i.e., by focusing Brazil's attention and energy on its vast, unexploited interior, the city will enrich the nation. Says President Kubitschek: "The hour has come-the start of a new era for our country...
...with her parents in the Brazilian diamond-mining town of Diamantina, and she began to keep her record of everyday happenings in 1893, when she was twelve. In 1942, as Senhora Augusto Mario Caldeira Brant of Rio de Janeiro (her husband twice served as president of the Bank of Brazil), she published her diary in a small edition for friends and family. Famed French Novelist Georges Bernanos saw it and proclaimed it a work of genius. By the time-1952-that U.S. Pulitzer-Prizewinning Poet Elizabeth Bishop went to live in Brazil, it had become famous there. Now handsomely translated...
Diamond Fever. Helena's father was the son of an English doctor named Dayrell who had settled in Brazil because he had a "weak chest." Her mother was one of ten daughters of a Brazilian who married off his girls without their leave by the simple process of interviewing the proposing swains. Helena records family stories of how the girls "used to peek through the keyhole and tell each other, 'I think that so-and-so's mine.' " Helena's mother was one of only two who married for love, and it was-as charmingly...