Word: brazil
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...author charmed his way into literary life with the succes fou of the season-a translation into Latin of Winnie the Pooh. In this book, as charming in its way as Pooh was, Lenard tells of his life as a doctor and pharmacologist in a remote village in southern Brazil and his genially picaresque philosophy of life...
...month's cost of living rose 3.8%-compared with 7.9% in March, 5.7% in February, 4.5% in January. Housewives in major cities have joined in the price fight, now publish daily blacklists of merchants who keep marking up. As a result, Campos is even predicting that in 1965 Brazil may be able to hold down its cost-of-living increase to a mere 32%-which would be the closest the country has come to price stability in five years...
...this wittily ironic memoir, Lenard blithely confesses that all the rumors are true. Unlike most memoirists, he is crisply cryptic about his own improbable early life. But with delight and charm, he descants on life in his adopted home in Southern Brazil. If he seems to resemble Albert Schweitzer as an intellectual refugee buried in a jungle, the resemblance is superficial: Schweitzer is devout and ascetic, Lenard is an agnostic and a humanist; Schweitzer is a crusader, Lenard works...
...Army Graves Registration Service. His duties: sorting and reassembling the bones of U.S. soldiers for shipment home. ("Can't you make it faster?" shouted the major in command. "Can't you make it faster!") In 1952, foreseeing a third World War, he fled to Brazil because "it looked big and green...
...translate Winnie the Pooh for use as a text. But he decided that paradise must be better than this, and he moved on and out. Wangling a license as a practicing pharmacist, he settled in the village he calls Donna Irma, in the coffee-growing uplands of southern Brazil...