Word: caetano
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...back as 1936 surgeons were working out a way to treat a psychosis by an operation called prefrontal lobotomy-the last resort for schizophrenics and manic-depressives. Using a technique devised by the University of Lisbon's emeritus professor Dr. Antonio Caetano de Abreu Freire Egas Moniz, skilled neurosurgeons cut away important nerve connections in the prefrontal brain lobe (a seat of reasoning) and the thalamus in the rear of the brain (a way station for emotional responses). The operation's aim: helping the patient to a better adjustment with his environment...
...manager and a Brazilian-Scottish mother, he started out at 21 as a civil engineer on the old Southern Brazil Railway. At 58 he is one of the wealthiest men in the country. He has been president or director of a dozen companies, now heads Ceramica São Caetano, the largest ceramic (tile, pipe) plant in South America, which employs 1,600 workers...
...dollar, you can see Flicka, Smoky, and Thunderhead at the Boston Garden this afternoon. For free, over at Franklin Park, where lire Varsity cross country team matches strides with Rhode Island State and B. U., you can see Bob Black, Manuel Caetano and half a dozen other R. I. S. Rams who have been known to run much faster than the above-listed nags...
...along.) Like nearly all Rio de Janeiro's carnival songs, Eu Brinco was conceived by one of the thousands of amateur song writers who drive Rio's taxis, run its elevators, sweep its streets and constitute a sizable portion of its population. Pedro Caetano happens to be a shoe-store clerk. Swarthy Pedro, with slant eyes and a cavernous mouth, cannot read music. He claims that he cannot even play the Brazilian song writer's traditional instrument: an empty matchbox with which the rhythms are tapped on cafe tables. But he has been inventing carnival songs ever...
...songs written down, Pedro relies on a musician friend named Clau-dionor Cruz. But Pedro has what he describes as "cerebral rhythm." All year round, Pedro and his friends compose carnival songs. Most of them are duds. But this time Pedro Caetano was well on the road to fortune. Eu Brinco was a smash...