Word: latinate
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...father was embarrassed. "Son, they don't mean 'boring' like when we hear your grandfather recite the Gettysburg Address in Latin. It's just a tradition at Harvard that when the crowd particularly enjoys a half-time selection by the band they yell 'boring!' in honor of Leonard Boring, the first director of the Harvard Band...
...season opens this afternoon with what has to be considered a gut compared to the rest of the schedule -- the MIT Engineers. Except that this year the booters are not settling for a Pass; they are shooting for the 'A', summa cum laude, the Latin Oration at Commencement -- the works...
Suddenly, more than an hour after the puzzling signals began to billow forth, the Vatican's Pericle Felici, ranking Cardinal-deacon in the Sacred College, appeared at the opened Window of the Benediction in the center of St. Peter's Basilica. His Latin words boomed out over loudspeakers: "Annuntio vobis gaudium magnum. Habemus Papam!" (I announce to you a great joy. We have a Pope!) The crowd was hushed as Felici went on: "He is the Most Eminent and Most Reverend Lord Cardinal Albino Luciani, who has taken the name of John Paul the First [in Latin, Joannes Paulus Primus...
Master of Ceremonies Virgilio Noé held a large scroll before him as John Paul I read out his first apostolic blessing, the traditional benediction, urbi et orbi (to the city and to the world). His high voice quavered a bit as he chanted the Latin in lilting Gregorian style. Before the blessing, the new Pope made an unusual gesture, granting "to all" who heard the words?either in person or by broadcast?a plenary indulgence. In Catholic belief, all sins, though forgiven, must be atoned for?either here on earth or, after death, in purgatory. For those truly repentant...
...Friday, when they assembled at the Altar of the Chair in St. Peter's Basilica, beneath Bernini's stained-glass window portraying the Holy Spirit as a white dove in a solid circle of gold, they had carefully weighed all the papabili (possible Popes). During a Mass celebrated in Latin, the Cardinals invoked divine guidance for the task ahead of them...