Word: latinist
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Published this week, Winnie Ille Pu proves to be a Latinist's delight, the very book that dozens of Americans, possibly even 50, have been waiting for. For the weary pedagogue, home from The Gallic War, it provides surcease of solecism and a welcome chuckle. It might even make a suitable Latin text in a progressive school...
...sneeze), and the great gag about Piglet's grandfather. Trespassers W. somehow just lies there in Latin. Furthermore, panistostatus cum butyro, though verbally correct, makes no sense at all in the Roman context as a translation of "buttered toast." According to Dr. Frederick L. Santee, a leading U.S. Latinist, the Romans had no toast and no word for it, and though they had a word for butter (borrowed from the Greek), they never used the stuff. Why not just panis cum olio...
Freedom &Riches. This week the academy named 13 new fellows for next year, ranging from Latinist Richard Brilliant, 30, a Yale doctoral candidate, to Latvian-born Astra Zarina Haner, 30, an apprentice of Detroit's famed Architect Minoru Yamasaki. Like the 27 current fellows, all are likely to be profoundly invigorated by the academy's unique formula: freedom amid Rome's riches, from the ancient Forum to the soaring Olympic stadium...