Word: braziller
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...EPENA, a potent snuff, is produced by the naked Waika Indians of northern Brazil-a tribe so backward that they have not yet discovered pots. But their hallucinatory snuff can induce a "trip" faster than LSD. Made from the bark of the epena and ama asita trees, epena is administered through a blowpipe. The tripster puts one end of the pipe to his nostril, and a helper gives a full-lunged blast that sends the snuff deep into the nasal passages. At first reeling and retching from the impact, the snuff taker soon straightens up, begins to strut, emits...
...I.C.O. is moving even more directly against the heart of coffee's problem: oversupply. Brazil, the big gest producer, has taken the lead. It grows enough coffee each year to sup ply two-thirds of the world's needs, has enough surplus in storage to supply every coffee drinker for more than a year. Though present quotas allow it to sell only about 60% of its average 30-million-bag crops, the growers could not care less. A beneficent government has always stepped in to buy and store the huge excess. But such generosity is coming...
...going rough. He often relies on sweeping generalities ("few South Americans have ulcers"), on superlatives (Colombia is "one of the most difficult, complex and contradictory countries in the world"), and there are some oversimplifications that sometimes border on the absurd. "Why is the army so important?" he asks of Brazil. Gunther's answer: "Because it has arms." South America, as Gunther admits, is "difficult to generalize about. It lacks focus." The statistics are not always available-and when they are, they are not always reliable. In taking the continent's measure, Gunther confesses, he felt rather like...
...science and economics at Harvard for nearly 20 years, interspersed his teaching with government service, ranging from World War II's War Production Board to the United Nations Atomic Energy Commission. From 1961 until early 1966, when he moved back to Washington, Gordon was an adept ambassador to Brazil. He will leave State in June, accompanied by President Johnson's blessing as a man with "a rare combination of experience and scholarship, idealism and practical judgment...
...Open the jug of rum and give me a swallow to clear my throat." That is the way tales are begun in northeastern Brazil. And when the storyteller is Jorge Amado, it is well to take another swallow and settle back for an epic journey into passion, music, gambling, a bit of fighting and all manner of discursive side trips; Amado holds that there is "nothing worse than telling a story hurry-scurry, slipshod, without carefully analyzing everything...