Word: latinate
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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When his turn came at the microphone, Figueres recalled that "our group gave what modest aid it could to end tyranny in Cuba" (notably a planeload of arms to Castro in his darkest days). Figueres went on to say that "in Latin America we ignore a little the possibility of a great conflagration, of a third World War." He anxiously noted that in dealing with the U.S. "at times we speak in the language almost of warlike enemies." He confessed "worry" about Communist influence in Latin America and warned against siding with the Soviets in the cold war. At this...
...century Christians, driven underground by persecution, developed a mystical code. Commonest of the symbols, and still in use today, is the chi rho -a combination of the first two Greek letters of the word Christ to form a χ ρ. Similarly, early Christian worshipers and pilgrims used the Latin letters P and E for Peter, M for Mary, T for the Cross. These were often inserted in the names of the worshipers and those they wished to commemorate. Thus the name CRISPINA is written with a Greek X fused with the P, making the chi rho and indicating Crispina...
Another Spring half-course will be Government 113, "Latin American Politics and Government," offered by John N. Plank '45, teaching fellow in Government. Two graduate seminars, "World Politics, World Order and International Law," and "Defense Policy and Administration," led respectively by Stanley H. Hoffman and Henry A. Kissinger '50, will be added to the curriculum...
Griffin will instruct a full course surveying historical development in the area and a Fall half-course on Latin America and international relations. During the Spring, he will conduct a graduate seminar in general Latin American history...
...professorship in this area does exist now," Gilmore pointed out, adding that the Bliss Chair in Latin American History, established in 1913, has not been filled for several years. The chair was endowed so long ago that it does not provide a large enough salary for a professor today, Gilmore explained...