Word: latinate
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...military officials persist in the practice, as do right-wing vigilantes such as those who kidnaped Bishop Hypolito. After the murder of Father Burnier last month, a Mass was said by the Archbishop of Vitoria "in memory of all those persons who in our country and in all of Latin America suffer violence, torture and death solely because they demand respect for their rights and dignity...
...rights lawyers, and still hold a third, though they have filed no charges against him. Two months ago, Cardinal Silva and leaders of the Chilean hierarchy issued a strong statement expressing alarm about "the fearful and all-powerful police state" that threatens to impose itself "without opposition in our Latin America." One priest noted ruefully that the theology of liberation used to mean "a man's right to participate in the running of a factory. Now it means getting him out of a concentration camp...
...nuns who backed striking bank workers. Colombian priests, however, are increasingly activist; 500 of them recently sent a petition to the Vatican charging that their bishops were "allied with the exploiter against the exploited." On the radical left, Father Saturnino Sepulveda, a leader of the Marxistoriented Priests for Latin America, declares: "I see Jesus Christ as the secretary general of the first ever Communist Party...
...month he said church protest is not "born of leftist ideologies." Rather, the church has realized that "passive Christianity" aids oppression. Now, he stated, it is "the demand of God that we take firm and solid positions, without hatred but also without fear." As never before, the church in Latin America is being united by this commitment...
...delta blues shouter, but for the most part he sings in his distinctive black/white style, which occasionally echoes Paul McCartney or Ray Charles. The broad range of musical styles is equally absorbing: those Beatlesque strings in the austere Village Ghetto Land, the swinging blues underpinnings of Black Man, the Latin glee of Another Star. As Stevie puts it in his Ellingtonian tribute Sir Duke, "Music is a world within itself/With a language we all understand." Stevie's many fans would undoubtedly agree...