Word: latinate
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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Zeph Stewart is professor of Greek and Latin and Master of Lowell House...
...Real-life Latin lovers do not much resemble their ardent movie counterparts. That is the principal conclusion to be drawn from a survey of 1,056 Italian women by Lieta Harrison, a Sicilian writer. Harrison interviewed equal numbers of mothers and their married daughters and found the generations in agreement that "Italian men are disappointing as lovers and overbearing as husbands." One Milanese wife complained that her husband "has no passion," while a Roman wife described her spouse as "uninspiring." More than one-fourth of the wives charged that their husbands had committed adultery-and many of the younger women...
Most of the nations of Latin America have severely restrictive abortion laws on the books; in fact, abortion is totally illegal, even on medical grounds, in Bolivia, Colombia, the Dominican Republic, Haiti, Guatemala and Panama. It is also banned outright, or only rarely permitted, in the predominantly Catholic countries of Europe, in most of the new African states, and in some Asian countries, among them Indonesia, Malaysia, Thailand and Taiwan...
Even in some countries where abortion is illegal-especially in South Korea and most of the Middle East-the operation is performed openly in clinics and hospitals. By contrast, abortions are performed clandestinely, but frequently, in many Latin American nations. Studies show that from 20% to 50% of all Latin American pregnancies are illegally ended...
...greatest risks and richest rewards are in the narcotics trade, which in many slum areas is increasingly controlled by blacks. Some are even bypassing the big-time importers, who are white, and bringing in their own heroin, cocaine and other drugs from Latin America or Southeast Asia. In Boston, police estimate that street sales of heroin, mainly by blacks to blacks, totaled $65 million last year. Factory owners, who buy in bulk, may knock down as much as $26,000 a week. Their distributors can earn $3,800, and the lowly pusher, often an addict, gets about...