Word: latinizing
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...Discipline comes from being a disciple," says Psychoanalyst Bruno Bettelheim; both words come from the Latin word for pupil. Children become disciples of parents who enjoy and back up one another; whose mutual respect and ungrudging praise for work well done makes children draw a positive picture of themselves. But the approach must be genuine; the young mind is quick to spot the phony...
...projects have ignited Latin American imaginations more than Peruvian President Fernando Belaunde Terry's "Marginal Highway." Envisioned as the key for unlocking the vast, virginal resources of the eastern Andean foothills, the road was originally planned to run 1,500 miles across Peru...
...year), in 1959 he sold his mother's Palm Beach house, Villa Artemis, for $350,000, moved in over the garage across the street. Next, in 1963, he sold their Manhattan apartment, took to commuting from his I l l-acre Long Island estate. Meanwhile, his plunges into Latin American airlines had come a cropper. He lost one airline when the Mexican government nationalized it. Even worse was his flyer with Aerovias Panama, a scheduled passenger and freight airline that went bankrupt two years ago, leaving him sole guarantor for bills totaling $499,765.43 owed to a Miami airplane...
...secondary school the student attended. Far from Harvard, the docket divisions are large geographical units: Docket B, for example, is The Rockies, and G is Ohio and Kentucky. But further East, Docket K is Cambridge, Docket I is entitled Andover and Exeter, Docket P is Boston Public Latin, and New York City's public schools have a docket of their own, separate from the metropolitan area's private schools. Peterson calls it "a New Englander's map of the United States...
...Washington. But American policy makers question this point. Said one State Department official, "If malleability were the test, Plaza would be a far worse choice for us than the other two. We could probably control them far more easily." He pointed out that Plaza comes from the non-Communist Latin American nation which has given the United States the most trouble in the past year. Ecuador has demanded the withdrawal of our ambassador from Quito. We complied. And it was Ecuador's President Arismendi who delivered a stinging attack on U.S. economic imperialism in Latin America at the conference...