Word: brazilianizing
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...store for Prince Dom Joáo de Orleans e Braganca, 32, great-grandson of Brazil's last emperor, but gossip columnists could not agree on the bride. One said it would be beautiful Princess Fatima Toussoun of Egypt. Another report said that the hard-working prince, a Brazilian airline employee, would wed beautiful Fawzia, newly divorced by the Shah of Persia (TIME, Nov. 29). Neither the prince nor the lovely ladies could be found by inquiring reporters...
...Angeles, Carmen Miranda, who in private life is Mrs. David Sebastian, was feeling best of all. The high-strung Brazilian with the high-riding hats announced that she was going to have a baby, her first, some time next...
...monuments remain. Each year in mid-September, Mineiros rise from their huts and hamlets and journey by foot, by truck and by train over the scarred hills to the shrine-church of Congonhas do Campo. Last week, as they had for a century and a half, some 200,000 Brazilian peasants made the pilgrimage to kiss the sacred image of the Dead Christ in Aleijadinho's Church of the Bom Jesus...
...Europe," Composer Heitor Villa-Lobos once complained, "I am known as Villa-Lobos. In the United States I am only a Brazilian-applauded because of the Good Neighbor policy...
...need to understand music," Villa-Lobos says. "You feel it." The music he feels is all the music of his own country. He grows angry when an unwary guest tells him that he sometimes sounds like a Brazilian Gershwin ("A child compared to me"), would be better pleased to be put on a par with Stravinsky ("Formidable!"). Actually, at his best, Villa-Lobos is like no one but himself. Says he: "I only ask that the maker of a piece of music be original. I do not care to walk in company with routine...