Word: brazilianizing
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...Brazilian Student Leader Vladimir Palmeira, 23, addresses his followers, including the clutch of strapping bodyguards who ring him in public, as "pessoal," or personnel. Until recently, that comradely term reflected to other members of the outlawed Metropolitan Students Union of Rio de Janeiro's Federal University. Last week, however, Palmeira led 25,000 people along Rio's Avenida Rio Branco in Brazil's largest public demonstration in four years #151; and those who walked with him included ordinary citizens, writers, professors, a labor leader and Roman Catholic nuns and priests. Thousands more waved signs and tossed confetti...
...point barricaded Avenida Rio Branco. Mounted police charged with drawn sabers; police also pelted students with tear-gas grenades, finally opened fire with rifles. From overhead windows, meanwhile, office workers showered police with such desktop flak as ashtrays and paperweights. Clashes between police and students spread to several other Brazilian cities. The toll: two dead, 83 injured...
...FESTIVAL. In "The Five Faces of Jazz, Newport 1967," Host Herbie Mann traces the origin of Middle and Near Eastern music with the help of his quintet, then turns the stage over to African Drummer Olatunji, Brazilian Guitarist Luis Henrique and Hungarian Guitarist Gábor Szabo-all demonstrating the form's roots and reverberations in other musical cultures...
...blooded musical drama. His concerto is full of mellow drama as well-racing scales, rushing rhythms and suspenseful pauses, after which, sometimes, nothing much follows. Nevertheless, orchestral color is beautifully provided by the Boston Symphony under Erich Leinsdorf, and flashy keyboard fireworks are brilliantly set off by the young Brazilian pianist Joáo Carlos Martins...
Kennedy was damn smart. Most American leaders aren't. When he came to South America he knew what was going on. Hell, he knew more about student problems than some of the students did. --a Brazilian student at Harvard outside Lowell House this week...