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...first volume, written in 1933 and translated into English in 1946, dealt with the Portuguese colonization and the establishment of Negro slavery on the coffee and sugar plantations. Freyre's second volume, written in 1936, has now been translated by Harriet de Onis, mother of the New York Times's Brazil cor respondent. Titled The Mansions and the Shanties (Knopf; $10), the book traces the growth of the cities in the 19th century and the breakdown of slavery (formally abolished in 1888), and cheerfully argues that a major reason for Brazil's immense vitality is miscegenation. "Perhaps...
Graceful and effective pronunciation is always a sticking-point in English, but the choruses and the soloists dealt with the problem well. The words were quite distinct, if I some times did feel spat upon. Several instances of unusual word-painting had delightful enunciation: "silver (seelver) and gold," "nostrils," and "blotches and blains" (the last by alto Betty Lou Austin...
Today's ceremonies mark the climax of a week of centennial events at Boston College. Leading educators and churchmen from many parts of the United States, including several Harvard professors, have met at a series of colloquia to discuss the "Knowledge Explosion: Liberation and Limitation." Sessions have dealt with the humanities, the social sciences, and the natural sciences...
...rrach. a would-be assassin fired a pistol shot at a professor engaged in electronics research for Egypt; the bullet missed and the would-be assassin escaped in a car. Biggest unsolved riddle is the whereabouts of Dr. Heinz Krug, 49, boss of a Munich firm that dealt in military hardware for Egypt. Last November, Krug vanished from his office in the company of a polite stranger and has not been seen since...
...likes to trace its history back through 50-odd companies to a colonial engraver named Robert Scot. Until the Federal Bureau of Engraving and Printing opened in 1862. the company printed virtually all U.S. currency. A changing world usually means good times for Bank Note, but change has also dealt the company some severe blows. It lost its biggest customer for paper money when China went Communist in 1949, lost another big customer two years ago when Cuba's Castro switched to Czech-printed money. Bank Note does not think much of Cuba's new currency...