Word: latinate
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...that had for so long kept the Colorados in power: the welfare state. Conceived by Colorado Leader José Batlle y Ordóñez, twice Uruguay's President (1903-07; 1911-15), Gaucho socialism at first transformed cattle-and sheep-growing Uruguay into a Latin American Utopia, Uruguayans into devoted followers of the Colorados. They got pensions (usually starting at 50) and the eight-hour day 20 years before the U.S. did. They got a vast network of government industries: insurance, rum, cement, petroleum refining and distribution, electricity. They got paid leave for expectant working mothers, state-paid...
Speaking before the Harvard-Radcliffe Liberal Union, Johanson, the Latin American editor of the Christian Science Monitor, pointed out that "In Argentina, the best steaks cost 26 cents a pound, while a Chevrolet may cost from ten to twelve thousand dollars. In Venezuela, on the other hand, ham and eggs may cost...
...intense reaction comes partly from the different perspective on events as seen by Latin Americans. What to a U.S. citizen might seem a quixotic, comic, futile or irrelevant revolution can be brave, idealistic, tragic or admirable to its courageous participants. The army that is a means of national defense in the U.S. and Europe can be policeman and intermittent government in much of Latin America. To the U.S. reporter, born to a heritage of liberty and democracy, the Latin American, in his political fight for liberty, democracy and economic sufficiency, can seem mercurial, sometimes misguided. To the Latin American, with...
TIME'S reporters and writers strive mightily, within the framework of their U.S. upbringing, to understand and report accurately on the newsmaking Latin Americans. This week, for an exhaustively reported story on a major Latin American country and its new President, illustrated with eight pages of color photographs, see THE HEMISPHERE, The Paycheck Revolution...
...Booths, and something from the lives, to which have been added puns, pomposities, and speeches from Shakespeare's plays. In an atmosphere of swig-and-spout, Old Junius and Young Ned part company in California; Ned, amid rehearsals, finds romance with Mary Devlin; John Wilkes Booth shouts his Latin and is the assassin of a President; at the Players Club he founded, Edwin dies while thunder rolls...