Word: latinate
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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Another thing is to treat developing nations as individuals, not as a bloc. And this would apply not only to the African nations but also to those in Latin America and in Eastern Europe as well. I'd like to try to cement, as much as I can, a good relationship on trade, cultural exchange, student exchange, tourism and foreign aid; using myself, the members of my Cabinet, maybe Governors on occasion, as special emissaries, and members of my own family, I hope to get what we call "world order" instead of power politics. World order means...
...escalating war between church and state is an amazing turn for Latin America, a region with 263 million baptized Roman Catholics.* Catholicism was long content to buttress the governments and military and economic interests that were in power, hoping thereby to encourage social stability and to pre-serve church privileges. A new generation of church leaders, however, inspired by the teachings of the Second Vatican Council and Popes John XXIII and Paul VI, is more active in struggling against injustice and oppression. The new generation also has a compelling cause for its fast-developing political involvement: military takeovers in nation...
...from being isolated incidents, these outrages in Brazil are only the most recent in a wave of anticlerical violence that has been sweeping across Latin America. Other recent attacks on churchmen...
...musical is supposed to be a light thing, filled--like the pinadas they have for children at Cristmas in Latin countries--with candy and small toys; a couple hours of pleasure. By this definition, a good musical is not a political, revolutionary art form, although Hair has some pretensions in this area (they failed). Probably the most stirring musical that also happened to be good was the original 1932 version of Showboat, when Paul Robeson changed the racist, stereotypical lines of "Old Man River" into a song of defiance, causing Oscar Hammerstein, the lyricist, to stomp off the practice stage...
However, Robert S. Fitzgerald '33, Boylston Professor of Rhetoric and Oratory and the teacher of English C, "English composition", may have implied differently when he said last week that all freshmen have the "experience of expos" and that no student can "take second-year Latin unless he's acquired a reading knowledge" of the language...