Word: latinizing
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...country's increasing ignorance of Latin was reflected in a question to the panel about media as a singular term and medias as a plural. Taking a swipe at Madison Avenue, Columnist Russell Baker declared: "In Latin, prefer Cicero to BBDO." Asked to rule on erratas as a plural form, Poet Donald Davidson despaired: "To think that we have lived to see the day when such a question can be asked...
...will keep a lower silhouette in that part of the world once the Viet Nam war is over, was received with understanding, though Nixon kept U.S. intentions inexact. So far, the Nixon Administration has done no more than make exploratory stabs at the problems of the Middle East and Latin America. But in the broad range of foreign affairs, a liberal Republican Senator argues that there are no longer any really dominant personalities on the world scene. This, he says, might increase international good will. "Nixon has a real chance, a great chance," he argues. "There is a balance...
Considering the experience of the two writers, the column actually ought to be better. The savvy, wry Mankiewicz, 45, is a former Peace Corps director for Latin America who became Robert Kennedy's press secretary. He is best known to the public for his sure handling of televised press conferences, despite his grief, after the Senator was shot. But he is also admired by reporters for the kind of whimsy that led him to explain away the biting of two ladies by Bobby's Newfoundland, Brumus, when a group visited the Kennedy home last year. "I only wish...
...marriage-were treated as lapses into heathenism. Though the tribesman believed deeply in the evil that could be wrought by black magic, and felt he needed charms to resist it, Christianity derided his fears; Catholicism offered him little more in the way of protection than holy water and the Latin ritual. Yet the convert cherished the idea that a Christian had a kind of magic of his own: he was "a good man." Even though a Christian in a bush parish today may have violated church law by taking more than one wife, he will still busy himself with parish...
...church. Most converts have long identified Catholicism with the Western European liturgy that they first learned. (TIME'S Rome Bureau Chief James Bell reported last week from Kampala that the Credo sung by Ugandan Catholics during the Pope's visit to Rubaga Cathedral was the purest Latin he had ever heard.) Until recently, older converts and African priests had resisted such innovations as Mass in the vernacular, native songs, instruments and dances, looking on them as part of their rejected past. Experimental native works like the famous Missa Luba were first encouraged by white missionaries. Now, however...