Word: colombia
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...writing about, those in the 18-to-28 age group. Their volubility seems almost like an effort to disprove one thesis advanced in the article -that their generation is "silent." TIME last month carried the story of the closing of an exhibit of paintings by Jose Rodriguez in Bogota, Colombia, because local religious groups objected to the exhibition of his life-like nudes. Rodriguez was quoted: "It was a pity . . . The public was just beginning to take notice." What the bashful artist didn't realize when he went quietly back to his painting was that the loss...
Medellin, in northwest Colombia, is a mountain-ringed city of church bells, textile factories and legalized prostitution. Of its 362,000 residents, some 8,000 women practice the world's oldest profession. The city lacks U.S.-style restaurants, ballrooms and respectable bars, and in the evenings its downtown streets are deserted. But the red-light zones on Medellin's outskirts are lively with lights, music, rum and loose women...
...Bogota, Colombia, art lovers think highly of José Rodriguez' painting-especially his nubile nudes. They also think that Rodriguez, a shy and reticent man of 45, is not widely enough known. Last month, in an effort to get him a bigger audience, Director Teresa Cuervo of Bogotá's National Museum opened a four-week show of his work...
...have come from Valley Forge. Through sheer necessity, he became a brilliant guerrilla campaigner, making up in mobility and surprise what he lacked in numbers. Before he was through, he and his followers had routed the Spaniards from Panama to Peru, laid the foundation of other free republics in Colombia, Venezuela, Bolivia and Ecuador...
...distressing picture of Brazil's matrimonial affairs and propose a cure-legal annulments after five years of legal separation. Those who oppose divorce say that "if it is bad without divorce, it would be worse with it." The church points to relatively successful divorceless societies in Argentina and Colombia, remembers that it fought down divorce proposals in Brazil in 1937 and 1946. Bishop Vicente Scherer of the state of Rio Grande do Sul called for "prayers to God to take away from Brazil the calamity which threatens Christian families." Defeat seemed likely for Carneiro's bill...