Word: latinizing
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...surprise his stu dents by pointing out that like many a Jewish immigrant's name, Jesus' was changed to fit more comfortably on alien tongues. His real name was Yehoshuah, which was translated as 'Iησοûs in Greek and lesus in Latin; the latter, in turn, be came Jesus. No one expects the campus trend to dispel the doc trinal differences between Judaism and Christianity. But as Michael Zeik, a Jew ish professor at Catholic Marymount College in Tarrytown, N.Y., puts it, such scholarship will help Christians and Jews "go beyond the sentimental...
...creates the years that Ho Chi Minh spent in New York, when he worked as a waiter and laundryman. And a freelance reviewer, Clare Boothe Luce, discovers that John Kenneth Galbraith is a better economist than novelist when she reviews his first novel Triumph, about U.S. fumbling in a Latin American country...
...directions are in Latin, the musical indications are in Italian, so the libretto should be in-right, ancient Greek. The plot is Aeschylus' Prometheus Bound, the story of a Titan who was chained to a rock in Scythia, so the setting should be-right, a jungle...
...outfit is pure hippie Latin American bandido-black boots, silver-belted denims, Navajo vest, and a purple velours gaucho hat patted down over his colossal corona of frizzy hair. On the hat is a button that reads, "Let's Brag a Little." So he does: "What I don't like about being on the road, man, is that you only remember each town by the broads. Like the blonde broad with the mole, she's from Frisco -things like that...
...that brief, noisy episode in the ballroom, Tune is governed by a quavering image of the computer as truth giver. The hero, too, is brought up to date. The Alexandria Quartet was in large part about an artist's struggle for freedom within his culture; Tune, which in Latin means next," deals with the similar struggles of a scientist. Beneath its lush trappings and Mediterranean settings, the novel is basically a study of the ironies and ambiguities that result when a man tries to stand apart from society...