Word: manoel
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...study, Drs. Denis Madden, John Lion and Manoel Penna of the University of Maryland School of Medicine conclude that psychiatrists may have a definite tendency to stir violence in their patients. In a poll of 115 psychiatrists working in hospitals, clinics and in private practice, the Maryland team found that no fewer than 48 admitted that they had been assaulted by patients on one or more occasions. Most of the psychiatrists agreed that upon reflection, they themselves had probably, if unwittingly, provoked the attacks...
Leader of capoeira's transformation into respectability is Manoel Does Reis Machado, now 71, who is called Mestre (Master) Bimba by his devotees. A renowned Salvador rowdy as a youth, Bimba took up capoeira seriously in his late teens and after several prison terms opened an academy to propagate it. In the mid-'30s, after he whipped three rivals on the same afternoon, his reputation began to spread...