Word: braziller
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...back to work-until spring, when Carter wings off again, this time to Venezuela. Brazil and Nigeria for Part II of this serialized odyssey...
...last week S.I.L. missions faced a serious rebuff in one of their most successful fieldwork areas-among tribes deep in the Amazon jungles of Brazil. The natives are not hostile-far from it. Forty-four field teams, mostly married couples, backed by five support bases equipped with light planes and sophisticated radio gear, have been peaceably at work for 22 years. But the government of Brazil has suddenly announced that in 1978 it will not renew permits for S.I.L. field teams to work in remote areas administered by the National Indian Foundation. No official explanation has been offered...
...wants the new honor that it, the resulting power and additional revenue additional revenue to fall on its own city. With literally no alternate choices, the politicians decide to build a new capital, grimly citing the example of Brasilia, a city built in the wilderness because "various parts of Brazil despise one another and would only agree on a wilderness site." While the decision to build a new state capital is an important one--part of disturbing trend of sacrificing the Alaskan wilderness to economic and political exigencies--the various interest groups pushing for one location over another...
Camus could have done the same thing in Bahia, his sixth film since Orpheus. Like Orpheus, Bahia takes a rather simple story, sets it in Brazil with beautiful camerawork, music and color. But the main story is a comedy, ending in marriage instead of death; it is complicated by subplots, colorful but distracting; and its climax does not have the heart-wrenching power of the Orpheus myth. In the end, Bahia is a very pretty, very joyous movie, but it is not a masterpiece...
...history paralleling Darwin's theory of natural selection--that cultural forms either adapt and survive or give way to "fitter" varieties. It is based on considerably more concrete evidence than the pioneering labors of Leakey and his father. Harris has made numerous field trips to Mozambique, India, Ecuador and Brazil in search of ancient cultures. And one can theorize with a fair degree of accuracy about what, say, the Aztecs ate and wore based on the archaelogical remains. These are far more accessible than those of Austropithocus. But it is much harder to explain the dynamics of a society, almost...