Word: braziller
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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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...
...very unusual opportunities" for Daugherty; the higher quality of schooling in the city led to scholarships and a Biblical Studies degree at Morris Harvey College in Charleston. After that, Daugherty went on to graduate school in Richmond, Virginia, and to three years of Presbyterian Church missionary work in Brazil. In the early '60s Daugherty directed religious education programs in suburban churches around Washington, D.C., while her husband earned a Ph.D. in political science...
Lord Laurence Olivier in Ira Levin's "The Boys From Brazil...
Last week, more than 19 million Beetles later, workers at the Volkswagen museum in Wolfsburg were busy enshrining the last Bug to be produced in West Germany. Some 300,000 Beetles a year will still be made in Brazil, Mexico and South Africa, mostly for local use. And the familiar shape will not fade very soon elsewhere. The company claims that well over half of the Beetles built are still on the roads around the world, including nearly 4 million...
...wants to write a classic Broadway thriller but doesn't have any good ideas? That's precisely what the protagonist in Ira Levin's new thriller, Deathtrap, decides to do and, not so coincidentally, it is what Ira Levin, a successful novelist (Rosemary's Baby, The Boys from Brazil) who hasn't had a Broadway hit in over a decade has done. Deathtrap economically combines two lastditch themes: the playwright-trying-to-write-a-play theme, which sets up worlds-within-worlds and all that twaddle, and the who-can-double-cross-whom-faster theme, the new nadir...