Word: brazilianizing
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Received by Brazilian President...
...program in Rio was rounded out by a number of social functions arranged by Americans and Brazilians at which the members of the group could discuss various problems of interest with leaders in all fields of Brazilian life...
...interior in 1931, came out with information on weather, topography, disposition of the natives. Three years later, on an aerial survey of the projected route, his pilot got lost, ran out of gas, made a forced landing in the wilderness. Airman Blotner might still be there if a Brazilian geographic expedition hadn't happened along, lent him some gas which got his ship to Belem...
...apparent paradox in Brazilian policy is explained by the fact that whereas in Italy and Germany autarchy was a means to external aggrandizement, in Brazil it was a means to internal development. Massive, unwieldy, naturally rich but undeveloped, Brazil was in danger of falling apart by centrifugal force when Getulio Vargas took it over...
Last week in Manhattan, another Latin-American exhibition was getting installed at the Riverside Museum. Most of its paintings were as postcardy as the usual Latin-American run. But a group of 25-odd canvases stopped visitors in their tracks. They were by a little-known Brazilian, Candido Portinari. His landscapes and figure paintings had gusto. Some of them swarmed with quietly horrifying surrealist doodads, some showed Negroes sweltering under Yale-blue Brazilian skies. A few, weirdly spotted with vultures, skulls and blowing bed sheets, depicted odd, forbidding calvaries with scarecrows hanging from crosses. All of them were painted with...