Word: latinate
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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There was also trouble from the right. The political stance of the film made it impossible to shoot in most Latin American countries except Chile and Venezuela. Costa-Gavras was not going to be allowed to work in Chile until President Allende heard about the film, read Solina's script, and then gave the okay -- not because he necessarily agreed with the politics, but because he thought it was a good script and would be an interesting film...
State of Siege maintains a consistently independent Marxist analysis of the political problems of Latin America. When the right-wing members of the Parliament accuse the parliamentary left of being Russian apologists, the leftist Deputy Fabbri answers that the Russians may well be as bad as the Americans, but that the Russians "are far away, the Americans everywhere." Not making a sweeping endorsement of anti-Americanism in any guise, State of Siege sticks to the situation at hand and draws its conclusions from the specific issue...
...entered a Barcelona school to sit with boys less than half his age to study Latin, then threw himself into a dizzying year of courses at the University of Alcalá. Out of it came Inigo's conviction that learning must be organized to be useful. The idea eventually grew into the Jesuits' famed ratio studiorum (plan of studies), which measured out heavy but manageable doses of classics, humanities and sciences...
...society. Many Third World Jesuits, despairing of a change of heart by developed nations, are growing more and more sympathetic to the idea of total change. One bewildered Chilean Jesuit sighs: "We don't seem to believe in the same Gospels." Peru's Father Luna Victoria, a prominent Latin American Jesuit intellectual, hopes for a more evolutionary kind of change that would fuse the thought of Teilhard de Chardin with that of Marx. "It could be done," he says, "if we substitute Christian love for Marxist class hatred...
...reminds readers about it perhaps a dozen times in his small book. Father, on the other hand, matured into a lusty chap whose interest and prowess were undiminished even by the aftereffects of polio. For the sake of skeptics, Elliott cites a medical report and even translates the Latin...