Word: latinizing
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Despite its long association with the U.S., Puerto Rico still spices its politics with Latin bravado. Thus, after last week's plebiscite to settle the chili-hot arguments over the island's political status, everybody involved claimed victory...
Fidel Castro laid it on thick last week for 700 delegates and observers and 73 foreign newsmen invited to Havana for this week's "Conference on Latin American Solidarity"-fancy Castroite jargon for Latin American subversion. The conference is a split-level affair. One level is a big, propaganda-splashed meeting filled with speeches and mutual, comradely abrazos, and attended by Communists, leftists and other Castro friends, including the U.S.'s Stokely Carmichael and Folk Singer Barbara Dane. On the other level, the nuts-and-bolts business of subversion is being discussed by rank-and-file guerrillas, agitators...
...politician, he is some of each-and something more. The "urbanologist" aspires to be a student of the entire city, an ecumenist of the metropolis, whose concerns go beyond brick and mortar to budgets and laws, souls and sensibilities. Just as the word urbanology is a cross between Latin and Greek, the science-or is it an art?-is a melange of many disciplines...
...Ruthenian rite is one of 17 semi-autonomous branches of Catholicism that acknowledge the Pope as head of the church but have their own non-Latin customs and liturgies. Ruthenian Catholics, for example, use a Byzantine liturgy identical to that followed by Eastern Orthodox Christians who are not in union with Rome, and which is traditionally celebrated in Hungarian, Greek or Old Slavonic. In the U.S., there are about 600,000 Eastern-rite Catholics. For many of them, their church is a God-given way of maintaining nostalgic ties with their homelands in Eastern Europe and Russia. But their peculiar...
...source for this historical novel: Manuela herself. In addition to her other activities, she was the official archivist for Bolívar's army, and her records document much of the tragedy, trivia and triumph that accompanied the 14-year battle to drive the godos (Spaniards) out of Latin America...