Word: braziller
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...past nine years, one President of Brazil nearly spent the country into bankruptcy, his erratic successor resigned after seven months in office, and the next man did his best to deliver the nation to Communism and corruption before the military threw him out. Brazil's economy naturally remained in a state of chaos, and its political life was a bruising free-for-all. Now all that is beginning to change. After 21 months in power, President Humberto Castello Branco's tough-minded revolutionary government is giving Brazil a breath of political and economic stability...
...month ago, Castello Branco dissolved Brazil's 14 fractured political parties and ordered them to reorganize under strict new rules designed to eliminate all but the biggest and most representative. The rules required at least 20 of 66 federal Senators and 120 of 409 federal Deputies to form a party. What the government hoped for was two, possibly three parties-its own, plus a moderately vocal opposition. But as one Senator put it: "Who's crazy enough to risk his mandate by outspokenly opposing the government?" Only 117 Deputies and 18 Senators pledged themselves to the opposition-five...
Most of the best poems in the book describe Brazil, where Poet Bishop has kept a pied à terre since 1952, and describe it in images that blazon the retina long after the book is closed. In "The Armadillo," for instance, she pictures the "frail, illegal fire balloons" that during Holy Week float up from Brazilian villages into the starry darkness, where they "flare and falter, wobble and toss" like fiery little moons in a mist...
Other obsolete missiles lay around on the ground, waiting for the Air Force to build a museum to house them--a Snark, like the air-breathing monster that ran wild over South America and landed in a jungle in Brazil; a Skybolt; a Minuteman model, slim, looking like three bullets, glued one on top of the other...
...Democratic renovation" is what revolutionary President Humberto Castello Branco calls his program for Brazil. To get the job done, in a country plagued by inflation, corruption and ineptitude after years of freewheeling politics, Castello Branco has assumed near-dictatorial powers while maintaining his devotion to constitutional democracy. Inevitably, his efforts have pleased no one -neither the moderates and leftists, who complain about his muffling of politics, nor the military's linha dura (hard line), which scoffs at his loyalty to democracy. In a series of swift . strokes over the past fortnight, Castello Branco struck back-not hard enough...