Word: paulo
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...Paulo Slum Dweller Carolina Maria de Jesus is against Father's Day; see HEMISPHERE, Life in the Garbage Room...
Carolina Maria de Jesus, a tall Negro woman with three illegitimate children, each by a different man, lived in a teeming favela (slum) in São Paulo. At dawn she queued up for water at a public spigot, an empty oil can on her head. To buy bread and rice, she scavenged scrap paper, selling it to a junkman and getting as much as 30? "on good days." But Carolina's nights, in recent years, were quite untainted by the brawling and raw sex that surrounded her. By kerosene lamp in her 4-ft. by 12-ft. shack...
...seesawed up and down themselves. "This is the kind of animal I have to live with," Carolina whispered bitterly to a friend. "I'll put them in my diary so they will not be forgotten." Audálio Dantas, a reporter for Folhas de São Paulo, who was covering the inauguration, overheard, asked: "What diary...
Presidential Promises. Magalhaes is determined to correct the federal government's neglect of the state. "We have reached the utmost limits of human distress," Magalhaes says bitterly. The Sao Paulo newspaper 0 Estado agrees with him: "The nation has bled Bahia...
Last week Bremen had on display a huge (305 square yards) section of Lurçat's Le Chant du Monde, which will eventually be almost double that in size. "All the monumental arts," says Lurçat, "are having some kind of renaissance. In Sao Paulo, Tokyo, Caracas, Geneva, it is the same-the architects are making huge new buildings with great nude walls that cry out for tapestries." Le Chant du Monde may never decorate such a wall, for its most logical destination would be a French museum, where it would hang as an example...