Word: latinized
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...board of the undergraduate organization is scheduled to meet today to consider a variety of fiscal measures, including a plan to seek several hundred dollars from the Harvard Foundation to support a program of Latin music...
...Then the merengue craze blew in from back East. "I tell him, 'All you have to do is march and move your hips,' " Navarro says. "If there's one dance that Anglos can get into, merengue is it." In New York City, merengue is footing aside other variations of Latin dance music and is busting out of the Spanish clubs into slicker venues. Mayor Edward Koch showed up at a merengue concert earlier this month to try a couple of decorous hip twirls. His verdict: "This is the one dance that you can do from the moment you're born...
Merengue has been part of the Latin music scene in the States at least since the '50s, when Xavier Cugat dished out some slicked-up, watered-down rhythms that had made their way north from the Dominican Republic and Haiti. Legend has it that the merengue was inspired by a Dominican general who trailed a disabled leg behind him as he navigated a ballroom. Another myth says the dance originated with slaves brought from Africa to work the fields. The slaves, in chains, would move off the ships by lifting one leg and dragging the other...
...Like the tango, the merengue never really left," says Cesar Ascarrunz, owner of San Francisco's Latin Palace. "It's just coming into its own again." Last winter Promoter Jose Tejeda staged a merengue extravaganza at New York's Roseland, and, he says, "the fire department had to come and block the doors because 5,000 people showed up." Merengue's ascendancy has been helped by a slackening of interest in the more energetic variations of salsa, which were tough on untutored feet and sartorially deficient...
...really don't think it's me. It's just the power of great literature," Professor of Greek and Latin Gregory Nagy said of the growing popularity of the Hellenic civilization course he teaches...