Word: latinizer
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Most of the Latin is gone from the Mass. Students at a once WASP-ish university now stuff themselves with pizza from a truck in Freedom Square. But East Cambridge residents can still count on one constant in their lives--the sidewalks beneath their feet...
Deep Discontent. Serious trouble began when students rioted in Paris' Latin Quarter against the shutdown of the suburban Nanterre branch of the University of Paris, closed by the authorities in fear of disturbances caused by student agitators. The upheaval soon spread across much of the country, fired by the deep discontent that permeates France's system of higher education. Compared with the U.S., few youths in France get to universities at all, and those who do find themselves immersed in a selerotic setup that educators insist was out of date in Napoleon's time...
Thus, the protest over the Nanterre closing commanded ready support. Thousands of students soon joined the original demonstrators, and took control of the Latin Quarter as if it were their sovereign territory. Students overturned and burned cars, set up barricades of uprooted paving stones, and fiercely battled police for control of the streets. The government at first used stern measures, sending thousands of police in waves to storm the barricades and beat the students to the ground with rubber truncheons. Then, alarmed by the growing toll of injuries, the government lost its resolve to smash the student revolt; it withdrew...
Rumanians have long had a sort of national crush on France. Though surrounded by Slavs, they claim direct descent from the Roman colonizers to whom they owe their Latin character...
...Bogotá, Colombia, more than 11,000 miles round trip from the Vatican, to attend the 39th International Eucharistic Congress. One result of his journey will be to scotch rumors that he's been in fragile health. But the Pontiff's deepest hope is to show the Latin American church, beset by declining prestige and a drastic shortage of priests, that he has not forgotten it. "All the roads of the world," said he, "are open to the ministry of the Pope...