Word: latinized
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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Faculty members who frequent the Signet for lunch and tea include Kenan Professor of History and Literature John L. Clive, Peabody Professor of Music Emeritus Elliot Forbes, Pope Professor of the Latin Language and Literature Mason Hammond, and Honorary Curator of the Farnsworth Room and Woodberry Poetry Room in Harvard College Library David T.W. McCord...
...young men, an American and a Latin American, have been jailed by the police of an unnamed country's rightist dictatorship. The crime: distribution of subversive leaflets. In their cell, they converse clumsily, united less by ideology than by a rapturous and surprisingly sophisticated passion for literature. Yet at every turn they misunderstand each other, responding to received images from each other's popular culture rather than to the actual person across the room. The American is a wandering would-be writer. He cheerily acknowledges that he knows no Spanish and thus has not even read the flyers they handed...
...wing elements of our community ready to be used by the authorities to blunt the edge of liberation forces," says Murphy Morobe, chief spokesman for the United Democratic Front, the national umbrella organization for more than 600 antiapartheid groups. "These vigilantes are no different from the death squads of Latin America...
Shapiro, the Latin Orator, will tell what he described as a "far-fetched story about the John Harvard statue coming to life for its 350th birthday and delivering an oration from the top of Widener about the right uses of a college education...
...Even though I don't know Latin, his speech technique was good enough that I could really get the gist of what was going on," said Joel A. Getz '86, class marshall and one of the competition judges...