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Other such articles are disappointing. Dom Aelred Graham offers an uncomfortably disorganized, rather vague view of the Catholic philosophy of education. His writing charms occasionally, but too often his sentences say nothing at all: "Life at college is more than a matter of acquiring knowledge..." And his conclusion is inconclusive, to say the least: "Because truth is not for or against anything. Truth simply is." Father Padberg's "The Word on the Harvard Seal" demonstrates even more unhappily how Truth rarely yields to a frontal assault...
Another View. A hemisphere-wide parliament may help, but recently another critic of the Alliance proclaimed that the Alliance's failings go deeper than mechanics. "The Alliance for Progress is dead," said Archbishop Dom Helder Camara, 54, of Rio de Janeiro. "But I desire its resurrection." The archbishop's appraisal, taped on TV for rebroadcast in the U.S., might be too harsh. The Alliance shows signs of life in several countries-notably Venezuela, Colombia, Chile and El Salvador. Nevertheless, he believes that progress throughout Latin America has been halted by both U.S. and Latin American governments' excessive...
Salgueiro's theme this year is the tale of Dom João Fernandes de Oliveira, a Portuguese nobleman who arrived in Brazil in 1761 with a royal deed to Brazil's richest diamond mine, Tijuco, in the landlocked interior state of Minas Gerais. To Dom João's castle, Brazil's most aristocratic mothers brought their loveliest daughters. But Dom João spurned them all for a Negro slave girl named Chica da Silva. Dom João fell madly in love, bought Chica and installed her as head of his household...
Whatever Chica wanted, Chica got. Her husband built her a palace with gilded rooms, turrets and landscaped gardens. At parties, she made her entrance down a marble staircase while small boys scattered flowers in her path. When she wanted to go sailing, Dom João built a sea-sized private lake, ordered a sailing ship from Portugal and had it hauled from Rio to Tijuco by horse and slave...
...with white feathers, lace, seed pearls and semiprecious stones. She wears a 3-ft. white wig, à la Marie Antoinette, and her satin train is 12 ft. long. The floats roll by-a replica of Chica's sailing ship, a group of miners pouring money and gems into Dom João's open hands-plus a second flag-bearer team, more dancers, and the percussion band. Around the whole 2,300-member group is a thick hemp rope carried by costumed men who keep the cheering sidewalk crowds...