Word: latinizing
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...your article on Erasmus [April 25], but I do not think you went all the way when you endeavored to explain the name of my great compatriot. Erasmus' name in fact was Geert Geertsz (Gerard, son of Gerard) and as the humanists liked to translate their names into Latin (and/or Greek), Erasmus used the fact that "Geert" in his time was a form of a verb which meant "to desire," "to long for" (Latin: desidero). You know, of course, that Melanchthon wrote an epitaph for Erasmus: "Eras mus omnia rodere solitus [You were a mouse that always gnawed...
...simply no longer feared the "deluge" that De Gaulle so often promised would follow him. FRANCE CONTINUES, headlined a Marseille paper when the moment finally arrived, but no one any longer doubted that France would. On the night of the referendum, there were some sharp, ugly scenes in the Latin Quarter between police and students, but they were largely provoked by the flics, as though attempting to incite the Gaullist prophecy into reality. If that was the aim, it failed. France accepted the vacuum calmly, fascinated by the details of the transition, watching and waiting to see what would happen...
...first in his class from the prestigious École Normale Supérieure in 1934. While his classmates ground away at the school's notoriously brutal classwork, Pompidou forever seemed to have time to swing ? cultivating his taste for modern art in the galleries, in political activism in the Latin Quarter (he once helped batter down the door of a rival political organization), or in witty banter at a salon...
...Latin American Presidents ever traveled their constituencies quite as thoroughly or as constantly as René Barrientos Ortuño of Bolivia. Barrientos chose this peripatetic presidency, which carried him even into isolated outposts, because he was a man of action; an ex-air-force officer, he infinitely preferred an airplane cockpit to his desk at Quemado Palace...
Bolivians were stunned by the death of their President, at 49, on a placid afternoon. "He was unique," said TIME Latin America Correspondent Mo Garcia, who knew him well. "Strong enough to dominate, bold enough to face down the educated intellectuals, simple enough to inspire confidence and trust among the overwhelming majority of his people who have yet to become a part of the national fabric. He gave Bolivia a long period of stability." Hearing the news, tens of thousands of Bolivians left their homes and journeyed to La Paz to honor Barrientos...