Word: latinized
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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NOBODY CAN DENY that great novels are a dime a dozen in Latin America...
Credo: there are real problems in Latin America--war, hunger, anarchy and Catholicism. The novel is an expansive, flexible literary form. It can mimic the diffuse, confusing format of a world run amok...
Recent short stories in America are chronicling the American malaise of boredom. In much the same way that Latin American writers have made the novel a symbol of the fantastic convolutions and discombobulations of their history, American short story writers choose their form to mimic the small problems that beset us. A novel about boredom would be boring...
...current problem has been brought on not by celestial visitors but, as biologists agreed during the four-day meeting in Washington, by man. They attribute the developing ecological disaster to the systematic destruction of the world's tropical rain forests, particularly those in Latin America and Southeast Asia. Deforestation at the hands of loggers, farmers, ranchers and mining concerns, says Norman Myers, an environmental consultant based in Oxford, England, may result in the eradication of 1 million species by the end of the century. Harvard Professor of Science Edward O. Wilson concurs. "The extinctions ongoing worldwide," he says, "promise...
...their final exams but was the only one to be expelled for the act. Ansara uses this tidbit as an excuse for a flashback to the fresh revolutionary fervor of 1979. As Bobby (David Frisch) and Rey copy over old tests, Rey equates the stealing of a Latin exam to a revolutionary act: "Say no to the academy, no to the authorities!!" Better yet, say no to the acting...