Word: latinizing
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...officials, started frenzied rumors that the U.S. was proposing some drastic step. That set off another round of speculation, which, by expert estimate, cost the U.S. anywhere from $100 million to $400 million in gold. Who did all the buying? Mostly speculators, ranging from Middle Eastern sheiks and wealthy Latin Americans to some Americans who dodge U.S. restrictions on gold ownership by dealing through Canada or Switzerland...
...compressing both plot and characters. The ghost is presented as an antic extension of Hamlet's own ego - epitomized in one scene in which Hamlet becomes a ventriloquist's dummy on his father's knee. Later, Hamlet also turns up as the Gravedigger, hiding behind a Latin accent; in this guise he delivers his "To be or not to be" soliloquy, thus turning the graveyard scene into a grisly essay on the meaning of death. The players' dumb show is omitted; instead, Hamlet lures his stepfather into mouthing the incriminating lines himself, until the drunken monarch...
...more than three centuries, the Boston Latin School ranked with the very best American secondary schools -standing almost without peer among public schools. With an equal reverence for strict discipline and classical learning, Boston Latin could claim at least some part in the later success of a line of "old boys" that stretched all the way from Benjamin Franklin to Joseph Kennedy and Leonard Bernstein. But after World War II, as the city school system deteriorated, Boston Latin went into a sharp decline, and for a while seemed destined to become just another inept high school. Now, in a striking...
...transfer elsewhere students who flunk a subject two years in a row. The real rejuvenation started only with the appointment three years ago of Headmaster Wilfred O'Leary, an unashamed autocrat with a classics degree from Boston College who cracks heads as easily as he conjugates Latin verbs...
...necessarily a good teacher," he says. "A teacher must love boys first. Then he must have a good background in methodology and in his discipline." A good teacher, he might add, does not have to be a man; O'Leary has broken 332 years of Boston Latin's all-male tradition with the appointment of four women teachers...