Word: brazil
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...considering his own Alianza-like program to help less-developed neighbors. Mexico's strongly independent President Gustavo Díaz Ordaz paid high compliments to U.S. Alianza efforts in his recent state-of-the-nation speech. The U.S. is pushing hard for social reform in Guatemala, Honduras, Ecuador, Brazil, Bolivia and Paraguay, all run by authoritarian regimes that are not necessarily throwbacks to the old-line oligarchies...
...occasion for awarding prizes, and come every two years, presumably on the theory that it takes at least that much time for things to change. Most prestigious of those conventions are the Venice Biennale (70 years old), Pittsburgh's Carnegie International (69 years old) and the relative newcomer, Brazil's São Paulo Bienal, started...
...real convention takes place in the preview week before the opening, when critics, dealers, collectors and artists live exclusively on cocktails, hors d'oeuvres and art-world politics. With 5,000 works from 54 nations spread along some five miles of walls in an Oscar Niemeyer-designed pavilion, Brazil's biennial provides plenty to politic about...
...Antonin Bata, 67, Czech-born "world shoe king" when he was boss (1932-39) of the sprawling (now 80 plants in 67 countries), well-heeled (annual sales: some $400 million) producer of cheap shoes founded by Half Brother Thomas, but who in 1962 was relegated to an outpost in Brazil after Nephew Thomas Jr. of Canada's Bata, Ltd., won control of the family empire in a spectacular court fight; of a heart attack; in São Paulo, Brazil...
...attending the opera and negotiating advantageous marriages. Along the gaslit avenues, streetcars were beginning to compete with horse-drawn landaus. Sounds like some place in fin-de-siècle Europe? Actually it is Rio de Janeiro during the last quarter of the 19th century, as affectionately remembered by Brazil's extraordinary novelist, Machado de Assis, who died in 1908. A popular author during his lifetime, Machado was rediscovered in Brazil at the time of the centenary of his birth (1939). Since then, translations of his works (Epitaph of a Small Winner, Dom Casmurro) have begun to trickle into...