Word: latinizing
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...interest in heraldry suggests he may have been a nobleman, though his faulty Latin-the patrician language at the time-contradicts it. He very likely was well traveled; a Bern watermark appears on several prints...
...word is derived from the Latin con-glomerare, meaning "to roll together." In geology, a conglomerate is a number of stone fragments heaped together in a mass...
With its detailed directions on how guer rilla bands striking at neighboring cities from mobile bases can precipitate full-scale revolutions in every Latin American nation, the handbook makes Castro's old tactics look almost amateurish...
...liking. Ending the present system, which allows some clerics to make the Curia their entire career, the Pope insists that all future congregation members must have some pastoral experience and should be drawn from all parts of the globe. The changes will also permit languages other than Latin to be used for the first time in all Curia business, bring more lay Catholic advisers into the congregations, and open the cardinal-dominated Curia to bishops from outside Rome...
Pritchett, who has written about Spain, Latin America and the U.S., relishes foreign lands, is at ease on many social levels, and has a keen ear for class. Though no Irishman will be found to admit it, all this qualifies Pritchett to be the best historian of Dublin since James Joyce-who was, of course, a Dubliner, though he scraped its mud off his boots at 22 and returned but twice in the rest of his life...