Word: favela
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Satins & Silks. This week the night of glory rolls around again. And up on the hillsides, no one is better prepared than the 12,000 glory-minded people in the Salgueiro favela on the city's industrial north side. Salgueiro's samba club started planning early. Those who could read pored over history books at the national library to find a theme; sewing machines whirred through billows of satins and silks, artisans hammered away on floats, musicians thrummed their drums, and thousands of lively feet ran through dance routines over and over again...
Brazil was not amused to see itself in a five-part LIFE Magazine study of Latin America last spring. Photographer Gordon Parks had paid a visit to a Rio de Janeiro favela, or slum, and recorded with his camera the often noted but still incredible squalor in which the favelados live-within a ten-minute drive of Rio's beautiful Copacabana Beach. But if Brazilians were stung by the truths of LIFE'S camera, by last week in the pages of O Cruzeiro (circ. 700,000), Brazil's largest picture magazine, they were reaping the rich satisfaction...
...people of the United States are ready to assume world leadership. When will they realize that with that leadership comes the responsibility for conditions such as those described by Carolina Maria de Jesus [in her best-selling book, Quarto de Despejo, about life in the São Paulo favela, or slum...
...tell me, where did Carolina learn to read and write? What is the literacy rate in the favela...
...Carolina had two years of schooling, from age seven to nine. About 40% of favela dwellers are illiterate...