Word: brazilians
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Until recently, Brazilian students were prone to expend their youthful idealism on attacking their universities. Ironically, most of them ignored the nearby favelas, the big-city slums that cry out for reform. Instead, they seemed to spend the winter rioting, the summer on the beaches or touring Europe. All too many were privileged rebels without a cause-a familiar phenomenon at other universities throughout the world...
Carnaval, as everyone knows, is the time when Brazil plunges into the world's biggest binge, a wild four-day pageant driven by the intoxicating beat of the samba. There are no politics to carnaval, and no Brazilian government-however tough-minded-would dare deny its people their great annual excursion into tun and fantasy (see box following page). Yet there is a slightly unreal air to Brazil this week, as carnaval dances toward its pre-Lent climax. Since the military crackdown last December, Brazilians have had to put up with a tough, moralistic, even prudish regime. While revelers...
...Brazilians, it is an expensive affair. The poor spend a good deal of money on their fantasias and work diligently on them all year long, looking forward to the great day when they come down from their hills to take over the city's avenues. Says one favelado: "Those who never work begin to work for their costumes. Washerwomen take on twice their normal work load, and even thieves steal more. In the end, everybody works double." The rich too pay for their fun. Brazilian Couturier Evandro Castro Lima is working on ten dazzling fantasias for society women...
Analyzing Brazil's orgy at carnaval time is almost as much fun as participating in it. American Psychiatrist Dr. Reba Campbell feels that it offers Brazilians "a chance to live deep in fantasy," fulfilling everyone's "need to be important." A Brazilian psychiatrist, Dr. José Leme Lopes, sees it as a "kind of collective cathartic." Psychologist J. Wayne Gibson, an American living and working in Brazil as an industrial consultant and private therapist, has watched half a dozen carnavals. Last week he offered a TIME correspondent these observations on the festival's psychic roots and meaning...
...everyone can afford to live it up more than once a year. But the poor Brazilian is kept away from places of entertainment by his color and his clothes; he wouldn't know how to act, and he doesn't have the money anyway. Carnaval is the only time of the year when the doorman or the janitor who has worked for the rich man all year long can dress up in the rich man's clothing and feel that the two of them have something in common...