Word: latinate
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...become a spiritual rut; more of the same intense, spiralling music with distinctive Eastern flavoring. There's no point at all for a live version of the album, featuring a mishmash of two very good bands. Except greed. Besides, I liked Santana better when he was playing speed freak Latin pulsations...
This ditty is recited by the children of Cook. They are up at dawn to watch the train refuel before it heads across the 500-mile plain of Nullarbor (Latin for "not any tree"). The desolate limestone plateau is covered with sea fossils, saltbush, and red-flowering wild hops. Weird subterranean winds whistle through caves honeycombing the limestone, and whoosh with an eerie trumpeting from gaping blowholes. Over one stretch known as "the long straight," the track runs dead ahead for 297 miles, the longest straightway railroad in the world. There was a "loco" driver at Cook named Kevin Smith...
...partial excuse was that he could not violate a promise of secrecy to an individual, an explanation that in this suspicious age would be hooted down.) Within a month of taking office, John F. Kennedy was tangling with a congressional subcommittee that wanted documents on foreign aid programs for Latin America; after considerable acrimony, the documents were reluctantly, but voluntarily, turned over...
Cuba's illiteracy rate is the lowest of any country in Latin America, and new schools and hospitals dot the country. The rich businessmen and the suffering they brought have been banished from the island. The Cuban people have gained a sense of purpose, a growing feeling of dignity, and the rest of Latin America looks to the country as a beacon marking the path out of the swamp of underdevelopment and oppression caused by imperial exploitation...
...battle over the literal "inerrancy" of the Bible has been shaping up ever since 1969, when a grass-roots alliance of conservatives succeeded in electing the Rev. Jacob A.O. ("Jack") Preus as president of the denomination. Preus, a former professor of Greek and Latin as well as Scripture, is no simple fundamentalist; like other orthodox Missouri Synod theologians, he believes that some parts of the Bible are poetic or symbolic-such as the Book of Revelation. But he also believes that what the Bible presents as factual is factual, and he holds what could be called a theological domino theory...