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...class, taught by renowned Vatican Latinist Father Reginald Foster, was the impetus for McNamara to apply for the Latin oration...
...will come in Cuba while Castro lives. But all that may soon be history. A week before the Bush-Gorbachev summit, a meeting of far greater significance for Latin America took place in Miami. For the first time in public, Soviet diplomats (including Yuri Pavlov, the Kremlin's leading Latinist) met with Cuban-American leaders. "We are accommodating political reality," says a Soviet official. "Bush will remain hostile toward Castro until the Cuban-American community blesses a change...
...summer house in Dorset by the sea. The house belongs to Octavian, a fat, well-placed government official who loves his wife Kate (despite an occasional lapse involving his secretary), and cheerfully allows her to take in a widow with son, a divorcee with twins, a Dachau survivor and Latinist, and Octavian's brother, a failed India hand. The couple's dear friend, John Ducane, is a constant visitor, a wealthy bachelor lawyer who is so far gone in his infatuation for Kate that stolen kisses in the woods and furtive fleshly pressures can no longer keep...
...Sparrow, a congenital skeptic and distinguished Oxford don whose obiter dicta have em braced such disparate subjects as the Profumo Affair, Lady Chatterley and the plagiarisms of a 17th century Polish poet, last week published his scholar's evaluation of the Warren Commission Report and its critics. A Latinist, an attorney by training and, for the last 15 years, warden of All Souls College-one of the most eminent posts in British academe-wartime Guardsman Sparrow, 61, concluded empirically that the Warren Report on the assassination must stand and that the "demonologists" who so often attack it have, without...
...labyrinth, determined to demonstrate that Finnegans Wake is more than just a grammarian's funeral. He has reduced the text by about two-thirds, added an introduction that is admirable for clarity, good sense and erudition, and has placed commentaries here and there to help any dog-Latinist through the Joycean style. Even so, the plain reader (if such exists) will soon find himself in waters deeper than the River Liffey...