Word: brazil
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...PRIVATE EAR and THE PUBLIC EYE are two sharply observed but compassionate one-act comedies - about a bashful boy who finds that his chosen Venus is just another dumb blonde, and a brash detective who chews macaroons and Brazil nuts and sweetly seasons a marriage that is stewing in acrid juices...
...music from the soundtrack of The Ten Commandments swells to a crescendo, then fades as a clapping chant, "Za-rur-Za-rur," fills the loudspeakers. "Brothers," a soft voice intones, "Jesus Christ told me I should be President of Brazil. But Jesus is not my campaign manager. I am his. If I win, Jesus will govern. I will deliver Brazil into the hands of God. The people are waking up and saying, 'I want Jesus to rule Brazil...
...Knew Everything." A screwball? Not in Brazil, which has always had an affinity for mystics. In these troubled days for Brazil of squabbling politicians, wild inflation and widespread cynicism, there is a longing for someone to save the country, and this longing makes Zarur a possible candidate for the 1965 presidential elections. A recent poll in Sao Paulo and Rio gave Zarur 6% of the vote and fourth place among presidential candidates-trailing only ex-President Juscelino Kubitschek, Governors Carlos Lacerda of Guanabara State and Adhemar de Barros of Sao Paulo State. Even before the poll, claim Zarur...
...Brazil's newspapers hoot at Zarur. The Protestant churches deplore him, spiritualist sects repudiate him, and Rio's Roman Catholic Auxiliary Archbishop Dom Helder Camara calls him a heretic. Says Zarur: "I don't say I am comparable to Christ, but my followers do." Then he pleads their case: "Look, my enemies call me a thief, a heretic, a sorcerer. Well, they called Jesus all those things as well. I was born on Dec. 25th, the same day as Jesus was, and I also received a message from St. Francis on my 33rd birthday, the same...
Still, the professor was no pedant. A China-born Southerner, he was the son of a Methodist missionary and the grandson of Nathan B. Forrest's chief of staff; he came to Dartmouth in 1913 after teaching in Brazil and ranching in California. For three decades, Lambuth asked only that students think hard and write straight, looking to such models as Belloc, Conrad, Chesterton and the English Bible. "Clear thinking and not a mastery of rules and a memory full of difficulties is what makes good writing," Lambuth summed up. "If you have a nail...