Word: latinate
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...focus of Kissinger's ire is the 12,000-man force that Castro dispatched to Angola last year to help Moscow bring its client regime to power. At present Moscow's Latin Hessians seem to be marking time in the former Portuguese colony, perhaps while waiting for another African assignment. One possibility is Rhodesia, where Prime Minister Ian Smith's white minority regime faces the beginnings of what could be a bloody "war of liberation...
...expressed him utterly-completely without overburdening the already unwieldy corpus of bibliography or falling into the all too easy vanity of writing a single new line." Paladión, in short, attached his name to the works of other authors, including The Hound of the Baskervilles and the original Latin rendering of De Divinatione. "And what Latin it was!" Domecq writes. "Cicero...
Deep fried or steamed, the Atlantic blue crab is a gourmet's delight. William Warner's book about Callinectes sapidus (the creature's first name is Greek for beautiful swimmer, its last, Latin for tasty) is a reader's treat. Warner, a consultant to the Smithsonian Institution, has spent years studying the blue crab and his human harvesters in their natural habitat, Maryland's Chesapeake Bay. The result of his study is a piece of popular oceanography worthy of shelf space alongside Rachel Carson's classic Edge of the Sea and Henry Beston...
...makes little difference whether this mass is said in the formal shot's scholastic Latin or in the more familiar vulgate of the candid snap. A couple's expectations of their wedding pictures are formalized to the point where the behavior of the photographer can only have a minimal influence. In fact, many people have defined how the photographer should behave, cast him in a role in the ceremony...
...experiences in the Qatab jungles have changed him and skewed his thinking, but he is still only six months out of Harvard and his dream appears to be bringing his Xixi wife back to grad school in Cambridge with him. Although most of Native Intelligence takes place in Latin America it is really mostly about Harvard; its point has to do with setting forth a particular kind of mind, one endemic to Cambridge, and then observing its behavior in a wildly different setting. What emerges--partly because of the novel's strengths, and partly because of its weaknesses...