Word: brazilians
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...what you want at an American bank, you might try a branch of a foreign bank. Attracted by the lush profit prospects of the world's biggest banking market-and by a paradoxical freedom from the federal regulations that restrict American-owned banks-British, Japanese, German, Irish, Israeli, Brazilian and other foreign banks are rushing...
...wall. Without one vertical or horizontal line in them, these tilting plaques had a mournful architectonic power. One experiences their juts and slippages as a form of physical stress. They were transitional works; but if the lyrical sap moves sluggishly in them, the same cannot be said of his Brazilian and Exotic Bird series -the constructed paintings, or painted constructions, that have occupied Stella since...
Starting with the Brazilian series, Stella used the most precise-looking of all materials, metal, to carry the paint. Designing with it gave Stella's work a more overtly constructivist look than ever, in line with Malevich's prediction written 60 years before: "We see now technical means penetrating into the purely painterly picture, and these means may already be called 'engineering.' " Of course, a piece like Grajaú I, 1975, is only fictive engineering- it does not have to with stand the stresses of the real world, like a truss or a glider wing...
Torraco feels that Harvard has especially benefitted him in preparing for his future in a parish in Brazil. Although Torraco is not a Brazilian, since coming to Harvard he has come to feel Brazil needs people educated in an ecumenical tradition since the churches there have problems with what he calls Brazil's "fascist government." "People are getting shot left and right down there. Many times if churches can't get their act together, the government plays one church against the other. There's an added sense of urgency to work together, to save their own necks if nothing else...
...reason seems clear: the Brazilian government wants to turn the Indians into fully integrated Portuguese-speaking Brazilians as fast as possible, so that it will not be hampered by them in its attempts to exploit remote mineral deposits and open the country to land developers. It is thus opposed to anyone-and that includes S.I.L. personnel-who contributes to "keeping the Indians in their natural state." S.I.L. officers and many Brazilian linguists deny the charge, in part because S.I.L. teams, once they make a tribe literate in its own language, customarily proceed to teach the tribesmen Portuguese as well...