Word: latinate
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...Your report of Bormann's furtive movements about Latin America [Dec. 11] obscures the reason for the search. Perhaps, if you had shown a picture of bodies stacked like cordwood next to the crematory, people would be reminded of why Martin Bormann deserves to be remembered...
...Eastern Europe, population experts estimate that 23 per cent of all pregnancies are aborted in Poland, 44 per cent are aborted in Bulgaria, and 60 per cent are aborted in Hungary and the Soviet Union. Latin America, China, and Japan rely very heavily on legal or illegal abortion to avert unwanted births. In all these countries, abortion is demographically significant...
...other signers of the statement are: James S. Ackerman, professor of Fine Arts; Paul G. Bamberg Jr., associate professor of Physics; Herbert Bloch, professor of Greek and Latin; Harvey Brooks, McKay Professor of Applied Physics; George F. Carrier, Coolidge Professor of Applied Mathematics; Dante Della Terza, professor of Romance Languages and Literature; Doris H. Kearns, associate professor of Government; Robert J. Kiely, professor of English; Regina M. Kyle, assistant professor of English; John R. Maynard, assistant professor of English; Ezra F. Vogel, professor of Sociology; Michael L. Walzer, professor of Government; and Samuel H. Beer, Eaton Professor of the Science...
...chasuble used in liturgical celebration developed out of everyday Greco-Roman clothing; an enveloping cloak (Latin name: casula, or little house), worn over the tunic, was adopted by the church some time after the 4th century A.D. Made of wool at first, the chasuble-with the increasing availability of silk around the 10th and 11th centuries-gradually acquired a dazzling sumptuousness. The epitome of this was opus Anglicanum, or "English work," a taxingly intricate method of embroidery that flourished in London guild shops during the 13th and 14th centuries. The Met possesses one rare example, the so-called Chichester-Constable...
Extracted with misplaced fidelity from Robert Marasco's unfortunate 1970 Broadway success, this lame tale about the corruption of innocence is little more than a trot for Lord of the Flies. An unpopular Latin teacher nicknamed "Old Lash" (James Mason) is certain that all the trouble is caused by his colleague Dobbs (Robert Preston), whom he describes as a "malevolence" and an "obscenity." Dobbs, however, is beloved of all the boys and Lash heartily despised as an overbearing, paranoid pedant. The bitter rivalry between the two teachers leads eventually to madness, suicide and the equivocal triumph of evil...