Word: brazilianizing
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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Education was always stressed in her family, Mayman said. Neither of her parents went to college, and both emphasized the value of books and of experiences. Mayman describes her father, who died when she was 10 years old, as a "book-oriented, dashing Brazilian who wore white linen suits and silk shirts and who played polo." Her mother is "bohemian in a funny way," and has taught fencing and ballet. "My parents met while they were horseback riding, and were engaged in a week," Mayman said...
...always rebelled against the idea of growing up and giving dinners for Brazilian surgeons even though you can always rationalize that sort of thing by saying that you are helping to solve world problems over a nice meal," she continued. "I don't like marking time in any sense, and most of the women I know from the seven sisters are like that--they are a driven, eager group, but not in the way that has to do with aggression. I remember a male friend of mine once asking me if I didn't have success drives. I thought...
...Washington, D.C., recital recently, Brazilian Pianist Ney Salgado was negotiating the tricky rapids of Ravel's Alborado del Gracioso. Suddenly - oops! - several notes failed to sound. Salgado stopped in midpassage, rose and faced his astonished audience. A memory lapse? Finger cramps? Hardly. "The keys are stuck - I cannot go on," Salgado explained walking offstage...
...have mechanical trouble with my engines," he told the control tower at Orly Airport. The control tower at Orly alerted all rescue units and prepared for an emergency landing by the crippled craft. The alert was in vain. Only a minute and a half before its scheduled landing, the Brazilian Varig Airlines 707, which had flown from Sāo Paulo and Rio de Janeiro, crash-landed in an onion field 2½ miles from the airport...
...plane remarkably undamaged-but only for a few seconds. Deadly fumes from the plane's synthetic interior probably killed most. Fire, so intense that it melted the roof of the plane, took care of the rest. In all, 122 of the 134 people aboard died, most of them Brazilians. Among the victims were Filinto Muller, president of the Brazilian Senate and head of the ruling party, and two popular musicians, Agostinho dos Santos and José Iglesias. Only those in the cockpit and the first few rows of seats were spared. Of the twelve survivors, eleven were crew members...