Word: rhinoceroses
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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It's gotten so bad, as a matter of fact, that a female rhinoceros in Brazil was elected City Councilman some time ago without once admitting she was a candidate. By a write-in, no less. Which all goes to show what a judicious "no comment" can do for you...
Four years ago, when the voters of industrial Jaboatão 1,150 miles north of Rio, went to the polls to elect new municipal officers, they showed their disgust with the incumbent Red-lining regime by electing a goat named Fragrant to the city council. Last week Sã...
It is told that the mad Emperor Caligula once appointed a horse to administer an imperial province. The people of Brazil's largest city, Sao Paulo (population over 3,000,000) have easily matched Caligula's choice of public servant; they have elected a female rhinoceros as mayor.
Such mass whimsy, of course, might augur poorly for the future of the shaky democracy in Brazil. The victory of the rhinoceros "represents a phenomenon of the greatest sociological importance," one Brazilian sociologist said. "We are on the threshold of revolt." One hopes that if revolt does come, it will...
Harvard voters undoubtedly have some sympathy for the rhino romp that marked the Sao Paulo contest. Elections on campus are often conducted in the same sort of spirit, and yield only slightly more fruitful results. Lamont DuPont had thinner skin and a less prominent nose than Carareco, the rhinoceros, but...