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...TANU was 500,000 strong and unquestionably the best-organized party in East Africa. In elections that summer, party candidates won 70 of 71 seats in the Legislative Council, and a month later Nyerere was asked to form a government. By December 1961, the country was fully independent. A torch was lighted on the summit of Mount Kilimanjaro, and Julius Nyerere became the first East African leader to have achieved uhuru...
...recently put the torch to an entire hillside favela after moving 684 families into the new Vila Alianca housing development. But Brazilian cities must build one new house or apartment every two minutes to keep up with the growth rate-and even Sao Paulo's amazing building boom is good for only one every ten minutes...
...Bullfights. Fados sound like torch songs sung from the top of a mosque: sobs, wails, cries from the soul. Even when performed by as dulcet a fadista as Amália, they are more forlorn than a foghorn, more despairing than a moan. Fado means destiny in Portuguese, and the Weltschmerz of a good fado gets a physical grip on its audience; like "ffillie Holiday's blues, fados encourage a state of mind well beyond the reach of popular music...
LUTHER. Playwright John Osborne's Luther is a fiercely burning torch-dampened by tormenting disagreement with his church, threatened by the double dangers of self-doubt and physical pain, but shedding the guiding light of the Reformation...
LUTHER. Albert Finney's Luther is a fiercely burning torch-dampened by tormenting disagreement with his church, threatened by the double dangers of self-doubt and physical pain, but shedding the guiding light of the Reformation...