Word: geraldo
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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When he wrote those words and set them to music last month, Brazilian Composer Geraldo Vandré had more than a song in his heart. He comes from the nation's impoverished Northeast, and he gave voice in Caminhando (Walking) to the growing impatience of millions of Brazilians with the way the military is running-or not running-the country. Overnight Caminhando became a hit. Taunting the regime, Brazilians sang it in the streets, hummed it in the favelas, and pushed it for an international prize...
...than twice the size of Texas, average per-capita income is down to $100 a year, illiteracy runs 75% and the life span of the area's 28 million people has been cut by hunger and disease to an appalling 35. As the Northeast's Composer-Singer Geraldo Vandre wails...
...with doses of castor oil, others prime themselves with such elixirs as raw eggs, whisky with sugar, iodine in milk, quinine pills, or stiff injections of vitamin C. Also popular are small doses of strychnine, which, according to one doctor, "tunes the vocal cords like violin strings." Says Dr. Geraldo de Marco, house physician at Milan's La Scala Opera: "We give so many shots that occasionally we run out and just give injections of water. The singers never know the difference, and afterward they always say how wonderfully they sang...