Word: latinizing
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...both children and adults, watch TV to degrees that the TIME article would find "excessive." Excessive anything-smoking, drinking, pogo-stick jumping-can be indicative of personal problems. Excessive TV viewing may also be indicative of great interest, and serves as the greatest educator since the invention of the Latin grammar school...
Behavior has changed. The Peace Corps' effort in the last two years to improve language proficiency has been called the most significant force in linguistic development in the nation today. Still, for one whose Spanish still halts after a year in Latin America, sensitivity is indeed a distressing problem. The Peace Corps, spectacularly successful in some language programs, must still admit too many disappointments. In many countries, particularly in Africa, fluency in indigenous languages has for most Volunteers been total illusion. But very recent developments in language immersion do promise substantial progress from wish to reality in both exotic...
...going to get worse," predicts Tripp. "As the population increases, people are living closer to danger spots-closer to rivers that flood, the edges of islands on the hurricane path, spreading to places not suitable for building, like the favelas on the mountainsides of Rio de Janeiro." Because of Latin America's predilection for disaster, Tripp has stockpiled supplies in Panama for quick transit to the area. "We try to act within the first 24 to 72 hours," he says, realizing that the major diplomatic impact-not to mention the humanitarian aspects-of his coordinating function depends on speed...
...offenders. In school, students are trained to be good spies as well as good Communists. They learn their arithmetic with "socialist distribution" problems, study geography in terms of "friendly" and "enemy" nations, and still learn to chant praises of what Castro had hoped to create in Latin America: "One, two, three Viet Nams...
...people, which has stimulated a new generation to fly, even while creating some problems for the industry. Sadler also conceived airline credit and the cut-rate fare for military personnel. Many an airline traveler is losing a friend he never knew he had. Along with collecting coins and studying Latin, onetime Schoolteacher Sadler's weekend habit was to fly to American cities, listen to complaints-and try to correct the problems...