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...scholarship to visit the U.S. in 1942, he said: "I will consider my trip really useful if I can help make Brazil known and understood by the North American public." Handsome Author Tavares never returned to his job as professor of biology at the University of São Paulo. Discovering that "in Latin American matters, the ignorance of the North American is astonishing," he set about the job of informing the U.S., at least about Brazil. In five years he has visited 38 states, lectured at 75 U.S. universities and colleges...
...third of the rural population has malaria, a fifth hookworm. In Rio and São Paulo the prevalence of syphilis and tuberculosis is even higher...
...says. He tells his readers of the west, where a League of Nations commission once said a population of 900,000,000 could support itself; of Volta Redonda, South America's biggest steel mill, and of the continent's fastest growing industrial city at São Paulo. Drawing on the studies of Brazil's social anthropologist, Gilberto Freyre, he shows that "there is less racial discrimination in Brazil than in any other country in the world." By inheritance, says Tavares, the Brazilians, with a rich land, a million unclaimed opportunities, and a unique cultural, religious & racial...
State of Sao Paulo, Brazil...
Wait for Imagination. Portinari was born 43 years ago amid the desperate poverty he paints. His parents were Italian immigrants who became coffee-workers in the little village of Brodowsky, in the state of São Paulo. One of twelve children, Candido began painting as a boy; itinerant painters who were redecorating the village church let him do the stars on the ceiling. Portinari broke his leg in a village football game, giving him a permanent limp. From then on, unable to play as his fellows did, he worked...