Word: latinate
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Most of the post-War theatrical offerings have been in English. But by no means all. The most important efforts have been those of the Harvard-Radcliffe Classical Players, who in the spring of 1949 gave the first play in Latin here since the mid 1930's. Since then the Players have put on six Roman comedies in the original--most of them by Plautus. By far the high point, though, was the group's very moving 1956 production in the Fogg Museum court of Oedipus at Colonus, given in Sophocles' original Greek under the direction of Robert A. Brooks...
...Paul's last week, Abdie made friends quickly. He will study general science, French, English, Latin and algebra. But what he likes best is to read, and St. Paul's library stacks made his eyes pop. Ambitious and happy, Abdallah now wants to become Moroccan Ambassador to Washington "because," he quips, "I'm weak in mathematics...
Charlie Goren was a very bright boy. He stayed at or near the top of his class all through school, earned pocket money in high school by tutoring less brainy kids in Latin and Greek. "We all thought he was going to be famous," a high school classmate recalls. "We figured he'd be a great lawyer or politician." After high school, Charlie worked as a department-store furniture salesman until a prosperous older cousin, living in Montreal, insisted that gifted Goren go to college. Charlie moved in with the cousin, enrolled at McGill University law school. After finishing...
...rapidly is Protestantism spreading that the Vatican has paid it the compliment of being seriously concerned. Pope Pius lists "four mortal perils" that are threatening the Catholic Church in Latin America. Among them, "Protestant invasion" ranked high...
...animals. Last week practically everybody was looking at the signs designating the animals. For it was suddenly discovered that for years the signs have been spilling over with misspellings that nobody ever noticed. One notice allowed that the black bears are "excellent swimers." Another, for the red fox, whose Latin name Vulpes fulva was spelled Vulpes Tulva, explained: "Range: Forrest regions in the temperate and sub-artic parts of both old and new world." The cherry-headed mangabey, read another sign, makes "speach-like sounds," while the eland runs in "large heards." The bear is famed...