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...arrived on Ash Wednesday, but the crowd was still in a mood of pre-Lenten carnival. It hoisted the returning prodigal to its shoulders and carried him on a mauling ride to a police truck, which drove him to a hastily built platform. Skyrockets burst, pennants waved, and there were shouts of "Jānio for dictator!" "Our solution has arrived!" and "Jesus Christ renounced too!" Disheveled, his French cuffs unlinked and flapping, Quadros spoke for 15 impassioned minutes...
Directions '62 (ABC, 3-3:30 p.m.). The Peloquin Chorale sings Lenten music from Mozart, Poulenc, Fauré and Kodaly...
...school years were marked by neither great distinction nor great popularity, but by an accident. While whooping it up at a pre-Lenten carnival parade, Quadros was nearly blinded by an exploding bottle of colored ether that Brazilians happily spray around as part of the fun. When the bandage came off, his left eye was canted out about 20°. He brooded for months, turning out tortured poetry about love, Brazil's destiny, himself...
...Janeiro, Brazil's four-day pre-Lenten carnival is wild enough. Surging through the city's streets, jamming its clubs, they sing, samba and spray passers-by with ether, in a pleasure-madness that only exhaustion can satiate. But for Brazil's women, the Rio carnival is a rare escape from the censorious control normally exercised by fathers, husbands and fiancés. Peeling off some of their clothes and more of their inhibitions, perfectly respectable Brazilian wives and mothers become during the Rio carnival the houris of their innermost dreams...
Should animals observe Lent? In his Lenten pastoral letter, Britain's William Cardinal Godfrey, Roman Catholic Archbishop of Westminster, suggested that 1) Catholic families observe Ember Friday (Feb. 24) by fasting and donating the money thus saved to relief of the "hungry and starving," and 2) pets be fed with less expensive foods. "A plump and pampered poodle might run all the more gaily after a reduced diet, simpler fare, and perhaps after having been denied a visit to the hair stylist. If this suggestion seems odd, turn to the third chapter of the Book of Jonas, in which...