Word: latinizing
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...speech is essentially free of foreign-derived words, as is the entire book. One of the prisoner-scientists in The First Circle insists on attempting what he calls "plain speech," in which non-Russian words are banished, even if puzzling archaisms must be substituted. For example, he replaces the Latin-root word kapitalizm with the old Russian word for usury, tolstosumstvo (literally, "moneybaggism"). Solzhenitsyn himself has proposed that Russian be purified in this way. His strongly held views on language not only contribute great power and control to his writing but are also typical of other attitudes that pervade...
...example, the Corporation voted degrees to the managing director of the International Monetary Fund, the head of the International Bank for Reconstruction and Development, the head of the Federal Reserve System, the head of the Agency for International Development, the secretary-general of NATO, and three presidents of Latin American nations. During the same period, no degrees were granted to Negroes. (In 1967, Harvard did grant a degree to the Negro President of Moorhouse College, and in 1968 honored Whitney Young...
Iranian students in the United States, however, see the Shah in a different light. Like many of the Latin American rulers Harvard has so honored, the Shah is considerably less popular with his own people than with American observers. The Iranian Students Association in the United States announced that it rejected the Shah's regime as oppressive and militarily imposed, and the students picketed outside Harvard Yard during the Shah's address...
...Classics Department, the number of beginning Greek students appears to have grown while the number of Latin students is at least average...
...otherwise generous spirit, Montejo seems to have been extremely miserly with his personal independence. With typical Latin machismo, he brags about his womanizing and the fact that no female ever succeeded in tying him down. Indeed, Montejo appears to have made a successful career out of avoiding entangling alliances of any sort. Who can blame him for being a little self-satisfied about it? At 107, Montejo clearly has reason to believe that he must be doing something right...