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This year's student body also includes 106students from Japan, 83 from the Republic of Chinaand 67 from Brazil...
...brought hopes of integration to the Philippines, Brazil, Africa; messages of healing to Hiroshima, Auschwitz, Germany. To Latin America he brought his intense love of the individual soul -? and his formidable anti-Communist and anti-totalitarian credentials ?- to denounce (and effectively wipe out) Liberation Theology, a Marxist-leaning Catholicism swelling up in the land of Che. Just last January it was Cuba, Il Papa face-to-face with El Jefe, quarrelling (rather adroitly) not so much with Castro?s vestigial brand of communism but with the low state of Cubans under it. "When was the last time a pope really...
When France finally won the World Cup, Paris was paralyzed with joy for nearly 48 hours, Brazil by dejection for a similar period of time. I was in Brazil in 1962 when the national team won the World Cup in Chile. Everything stopped for two days while Rio celebrated a premature carnival...
...mythic status of Pele derives as well from the way he incarnated the character of Brazil's national team. Its style affirms that virtue without joy is a contradiction in terms. Its players are the most acrobatic, if not always the most proficient. Brazilian teams play with a contagious exuberance. When those yellow shirts go on the attack--which is most of the time--and their fans cheer to the intoxicating beat of samba bands, soccer becomes a ritual of fluidity and grace. In Pele's day, the Brazilians epitomized soccer as fantasy...
...Pele at his peak only once, at the final of the World Cup in 1970. Brazil's opponent was Italy, which played its tough defense coupled with sudden thrusts to tie the game 1-1, demoralizing the Brazilians. Italy could very easily have massed its defense even more, until its frantic opponent began making the mistakes that would encompass its ruin. But, led by Pele, Brazil paid no attention. Attacking as if the Italians were a practice team, the Brazilians ran them into the ground...