Word: latinate
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...committee's polite questions, impressed members with a pin-striped academic pedigree. He holds a B.A. from Rutgers University (Phi Beta Kappa,'31), M.A. and Ph.D. from the University of Pennsylvania, Certificat Avancé from France's Sorbonne, has a scholar's command of Latin, French and Spanish and a reading knowledge of German and Portuguese. Now head of the modern language department in North Carolina College at Durham, he is a slave's grandson, one of five accomplished children of a Methodist minister. His brother E. Frederic is a White House administrative officer (Special...
...Dempster Mclntosh, 63, onetime president of Philco International Corp. (1943-53), ambassador to Latin American countries (Uruguay, Venezuela), first manager of the Administration's Development Loan Fund (1957-59), to be Ambassador to Colombia...
...front of a book or chapter. And no novelist now working is better equipped to conduct a seminar on the technique than Niven (Duel in the Sun) Busch. His current novel, about a moneyed San Francisco clan, has ten epigraphs-one at the beginning of each chapter. A Latin proverb assures doubters that the author is classically educated, a quotation from the San Francisco Examiner implies that his feet are solidly on the ground, a scrap from T. S. Eliot warns that there is subtle stuff ahead...
...single week of explosive violence, three Latin American nations clamped on martial law or states of siege...
...violence, in each case, lay deep feelings of thwarted expectation. Partly the hope is for freedom, a hope frustrated by dictatorships and fumbling governments. Partly the hope is for justice : law that really works. Mostly the hope is for a better life. Since World War II, 26 million rural Latin Americans have left the countryside for cities that shimmer with promise of jobs. food, clothes, houses, education. They arrive to find unemployment, housing shortages. jammed schools. Each disillusionment chafes doubly as a Communist propaganda drumfire pounds on it. And the new prosperity of Europe, the new and well publicized political...