Word: braziller
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...disillusioned. For nearly ten years I have raised three daughters in this remote part of Brazil's interior on Dr. Benjamin Spock's Baby and Child Care. During many a long night I have been comforted by his undisputed and acknowledged expertise in the care of children. Now I read that my hero has been duped by left-wing extremists [Sept. 15]. Please, Dr. Spock. tell us about pacifiers, not pacifism...
Delegates swept that squabble under the rug by calling for a report on rules changes next March. Meanwhile, they proceeded with their annual meeting's more pleasant activities: serious private talk well moistened at lunches, cocktail bashes and elegant dinners. To provide a suitably opulent setting, Brazil hastily completed the late architect Affonso Eduardo Reidy's beachfront Museum of Modern Art, despite some peculiarly Latin difficulties. University students wrecked the bulldozers that were about to demolish their subsidized, low-price restaurant, which blocked access to the imposing museum. Brazil's central bank bought off the students with...
...economics from the University of Arizona, and after a year of graduate study at Harvard, spent 15 years as a Rhodes Scholar and don at Oxford. He served with the Office of Strategic Services in World War II, taught briefly at the University of Sao Paulo in Brazil before joining Rand in 1948. He and his wife Nancy have one adopted daughter...
...years, the Sao Paulo Bienal, held in odd-numbered years in Brazil's larg est city, has played poor relation to the more prestigious Venice Biennale, which is held in even-numbered years. Nonetheless, the ninth Sao Paulo Bienal, which is beginning its three-month run in the city's Niemeyer-built exhibition hall, this year bids fair to rival Venice...
...fled France in 1962 to organize a second resistance movement-this time against De Gaulle. Bidault disclaims any responsibility for the terrorism that accompanied the Algerie Française campaign; nevertheless, he was charged with treason, and for five years he wandered in quixotic exile in Europe and Brazil. Now living in Belgium on the understanding that he will not engage in politics, he still hopes to negotiate his return to France. This book, subtitled a "Political Biography," is the keening, embittered tirade of a man without a country. At 67, says Bidault in the words of Victor Hugo...