Word: rios
(lookup in dictionary)
(lookup stats)
Dates: during 1940-1949
Sort By: most recent first
(reverse)
Next fortnight, in Rio the 21 American republics will send delegates to the Inter-American Conference on Peace & Security. For gaunt, scholarly Raúl Fernandes, Brazil's 69-year-old Foreign Minister, the meeting will be something of a personal triumph. It will give him opportunity to push his, and Brazil's, two-fold policy: Pan-Americanism and friendship with the U.S. As Brazil's chief delegate, he will wield great, if not always apparent, power...
...jurists appointed to draw up the statute for the Permanent Court of International Justice, he worked out a formula that won support for the Court from both great & small powers. Those were great days for Fernandes. He has not forgotten them, and somewhat wistfully has hoped that at Rio oldtime formality could be recaptured by the wearing of white ties at plenary session...
...sent off to Rio to study, slept in a bathtub, learned a correct academic style that won him several medals. After that came a two-year scholarship in Paris. He angered his sponsors by returning to Brazil with only a single small painting. Portinari explained: "I can paint nothing at first sight. I must wait and let imagination work...
...imagination went to work on the peasant life he knew, shaping it into raw-toned, spaciously planned pictures that were quickly acclaimed by Rio's intellectuals. Soon even Brazil's granfinos (upper crust), who disliked his serious works ("He paints big feet, he paints Negroes, he imitates Diego Rivera"), were commissioning him to paint their portraits, and Portinari obligingly turned out slick & sound conventional likenesses in the best School of Fine Arts manner. He made good money painting portraits of Helena Rubinstein, Yehudi Menuhin, Artur Rubinstein...
Unforgettable Faces. Portinari lives in an old Portuguese colonial house with faded shutters and a tangled garden in Laranjeiras, a Rio suburb, with his dark-eyed, trim Uruguayan wife and their eight-year...