Word: latinate
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...during his 1976 election campaign. What is more, when Carter spoke last week to a Washington gathering of 26 foreign ministers from the Organization of American States, the issue of human rights took up one-fourth of his 20-minute address. Though Carter was obviously referring to violations in Latin America, his warning that "there are costs to the flagrant disregard of international standards" was presumably meant to be heard in Moscow as well...
...exercises will include three speeches by students, the Latin Oration and the English graduate and undergraduate orations. This year is the first year since 1973 that all three speeches will be given. Thomas A.J. McGinn '78 will deliver the Latin Oration, Harry J. Elam '78 will deliver the undergraduate English Oration and Gregory Lipscomb will deliver the graduate English oration...
...their best, the electives have the intensity and ferment of Kelly Wise's novel and drama course. Wise's teaching style is vastly different from that of Georgie Hinman, a legendary Latin teacher of an earlier Andover who stabbed penknives into his peg leg to express disapproval and made students flush bad translations down the toilet. Wise, in contrast, has a more casual attitude toward the 14 seniors in his class. "I don't act as a sage," says Wise. "Sometimes I lie and dissemble and distort to provoke them, to make it impossible for them...
Today, in a remarkable turnabout, a growing number of Americans have begun looking for a better way of dealing with the dying. In their search they have reached back to the Middle Ages, when religious orders established hospices (derived from the Latin word for guest) to care for travelers as well as ailing and dying pilgrims. Within the past few years, 130 groups have organized hospice programs, and about 20 institutions recognized by the newly formed National Hospice Organization (N.H.O.) are operating in the U.S. Unlike the way stations of the past, the present-day hospices provide more than attentive...
...relic of past prestige, came back from the brink of bankruptcy by becoming a mecca for overseas tourists who still associate it with glamour and bathing beauties. Tony Alonzo, a Cuban refugee who opened a small store in Miami in 1965, has built a million-dollar business by supplying Latin visitors with products that either cost them much more at home or are not available at all because of import restrictions. "Some tourists spend their vacation in my store," he says. "They buy their whole year's needs of brands they know-Arrow shirts, Levi Strauss and Wrangler jeans...