Word: latinizing
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...Lyndon Johnson began his week by rolling out the red carpet for an Afghan Prime Minister and ended it by throwing a rollicking Texas-style barbecue for 29 Latin American diplomats...
Sensitive in Spanglish. At week's end, accompanied by Lady Bird and Latin ambassadors accredited to the U.S. and to the Organization of American States, the President took off aboard Air Force One for the L.B.J. ranch. There were red bandanas with Texas-shaped clasps for the guests, a tour of the ranch and a historical pageant known as a "Texas Fandangle"-border-country Spanglish for fandango, the frenetic Mexican dance. Lyndon used the weekend to give his guests a high-pressured pitch for San Antonio's 1968 "Hemis-Fair...
...only 13 nations have announced plans to participate, and the President is naturally hopeful that the $156 million extravaganza on his back doorstep (70 miles from the ranch) will draw more Latin nations...
...main point of the weekend was to pave the way for next week's hemisphere conference at the Uruguayan resort of Punta del Este, which Johnson plans to attend along with 20 Latin heads of state. At the top of the agenda are talks on joint inter-American programs for developing the basic economies of the nations south of the Rio Grande and on creation of a Latin American common market...
...Moon and Six Guineas is a brittle-brutal study of a once fashionable painter, John Howland, a "Bostonian and Mayflower descendant, educated at Dixwell Latin School and Harvard." He made his first mistake in becoming an artist; his second was to leave-together with his corny canvases-a portfolio of pornographic sketches. His daughter and heir destroy this Back Bay smut. The Auchincloss irony? That the smut just might have restored the reputation of Howland's square work in today's crooked intellectual auction room...