Word: candido
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...church is God's hangar on earth." But to Belo Horizonte's Roman Catholic archbishop, Niemeyer's hangar looked more like the devil's bomb shelter -a parabolic vault of glass and stucco, with an emaciated Christ glaring from a huge fresco by Painter Candido Portinari. Worse, Architect Niemeyer and Painter Portinari were godless Communists. Despite protests by Belo Horizonte's Mayor Juscelino Kubitschek, Archbishop Dom Antonio dos Santos Cabral called the structure "unfit for religious purposes...
...Beat of My Heart (Tony Bennett, vocalist; Chico Hamilton, Art Blakey, Jo Jones, Billy Exiner, Candido, Sabu on drums; Columbia). Abetted chiefly by some wonderfully complex naked drum accompaniments, Singer Bennett launches his husky, finely pitched voice into an assortment of old favorites, makes them sound as strange and freshly minted as though they were written yesterday. The nervous, shifty-tempoed title song alone makes this one of the most intriguing vocal albums in months...
...international flavor of the competition was served when England's John Piper took third prize and $750 for an impressionistic backyard-scape called Nailsworth, Gloucestershire. Honorable mentions (plus $250 each) went to Italy's Gustavo Foppiani, France's Bernard Lorjou and Bernard Buffet, Brazil's Candido Portinari, and Loren MacIver, Walter Stuempfig and Robert Vickrey of the U.S. "This," said Jurist Goodrich, "is the best competition Hallmark has held...
...embassy and from there went on to change, in his modest way, the course of history. Last week, having long since retired as one of the most successful spies in history, 62-year-old Francesco Costantini told his story for the benefit of readers of Milan's weekly Candido...
...group is successful, the bright lights who made it so will advance up the ladder to the Broadway stage; if not successful, they will be back pounding the Pavements. For instance, Jose Quintero, director of The Iceman Cometh, directed Long Day's Journey into Night on Broadway. Me Candido, a very warm and pleasant new play presented by a non-profit settlement house group has been sold to the movies; Kim Stanley and many other now successful actors and actresses began their career on the off-Broadway stage...