Word: latinate
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...this plot, Davies' libretto fashions an Everyman kind of morality opera, in which cardinals, white abbots, Latin-spouting priests, heretics and jesters parade in and out of stylized throne rooms and courtrooms while Taverner's destiny is worked out. Allegorical characters such as Joking Jesus, a Pope/Antichrist and Jester/Death trail them in symbolic profusion. Director Michael Geliot (on loan from the Welsh National Opera) and Designer Ralph Koltai have built their set around a huge tower of seesaw platforms on which the merits-and fates-of Taverner and his antagonists are literally and figuratively weighed in the balance...
...general, the President's selections were obvious enough (Babe Ruth, Joe DiMaggio, Willie Mays and the like). They spread across a movie infantry-platoon ethnic spectrum. As New York Times Columnist Red Smith noted, Nixon "saluted young and old, white and black, Latin and Nordic, lefthander and righthander, Catholic and WASP, Jew and American Indian." No one would be offended, except perhaps a handful of Liechtensteiner and Tibetan diamond buffs...
Although the President had specifically denied that Connally would "undertake a permanent Government assignment," speculation continued that he was being groomed for Secretary of State or Vice President-without any real evidence. In Latin America, there were warm talks with Argentine President Alejandro Agustin Lanusse and Peruvian dictator Juan Velasco Alvarado, but nothing concrete seemed to come out of the discussions. The inconclusive pattern continued in Australia and New Zealand. One Australian Minister called Connally a "high-powered Averell Harriman, only more impressive." Diplomats in Washington say he has proved to be a shrewd observer and called his mission...
Metcalfe and his followers have demanded that Conlisk disband the elite police task force unit, which they blame for much of the police brutality in black and Latin American neighborhoods. The group also called for an increase in the number of blacks in policymaking positions, the recruitment of more blacks and the across-the-board upgrading of blacks already on the force. To increase citizen control over police activities, the group has demanded that citizens' review boards be created for each of the city's 21 police districts...
Over his desk, Denenberg has placed the Latin motto Populus iamdudum defutatus est, which he translates as "The consumer has been screwed long enough." To help beleaguered buyers, Denenberg has ordered all the 1,157 insurance companies that do business in Pennsylvania to appoint ombudsmen to hear consumer complaints. He has sent traveling teams of investigators to hear gripes from policyholders in small communities throughout the state. Consumer complaints are pouring in to Denenberg's office at an annual rate of 50,000, up from 25,000 in 1971. He has conducted televised hearings and investigations on just about...