Word: latinate
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...bottom part of the iceberg, the resonance of a play." One of the exercises that the Figaro actors did was to turn their characters into statues, and then make the statues grow larger and larger. Figaro employs a very theatrical style of acting, gestured, European, Latin. "The characters have to be very big, but they must be rich, not caricatured," Havergal says...
...seven finalists, selected from an original group of 30, each delivered a literary or oratorical selection of a maximum of five minutes in Latin, Greek or English...
...Latin buffs will love the slogan that won the Radcliffe T-shirt competition: "Collegium Feminamque Cano," translated as "Of the college and the woman I sing...
...related treaty passed last month by only one vote more than the required two-thirds?that a handful of borderline Senators suddenly acquired an extraordinary power to demand their own revisions in the treaty. A defeat in the Senate would be a stunning blow to U.S. prestige throughout Latin America; a hedged Senate vote that might provoke the already affronted Panamanians into rejecting the treaty on their own would be hardly less harmful...
...treaty, in fact, gives the sanction of law to U.S. intervention if the need arises. This provision has been made so explicit by the reservations that Panama now has sent a letter to other Latin American nations suggesting that it may not be able to accept the treaty in its present form. Rather tolerant through all the tumultuous and sometimes insulting Senate debate, Panamanians have been pushed close to their limits; and there are, after all, two parties to the treaty...