Word: latinizing
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...About Letter Writer Altman's comment on the "flickering" nova [July 14]: It is accepted in U.S. education circles that "nova" as applied to the Nova complex is derived from the Latin "new." However, we have encountered this ploy of the short-lived star before; the answer is that the "brief" life of a nova may be several thousand years...
...Burle Marx, 64, was at the Municipal Theater directing the first performance of his Third Symphony. Haroldo Burle Marx, 55, is the wealthy manufacturer of Brazil's most exquisite jewelry. And Roberto Burle Marx, 57, is a Renaissance virtuoso: tapestry designer, tile glazer, chef, noted amateur baritone-and Latin America's most eminent landscape designer. For good measure, Roberto was displaying his recent paintings at a Rio gallery...
...increase of 75% in the last decade. Printed in Montreal, it offers the full editorial content of TIME U.S., plus four pages of Canadian news written and edited by a Canadian staff. Our other international editions, each with its own regional advertising areas, are: Atlantic, printed in Paris; Latin America, printed in Atlanta but soon to move to Panama; Asia, in Tokyo; South Pacific, in Melbourne and Auckland. They are produced with foreign ads by photographing the text of the U.S. edition and flying the film to the various overseas printing plants...
...Tour shared the cynical nationalism and lust for learning of his friends Voltaire and Rousseau. He refused the Order of St. Michael because of his egalitarian principles. He delved into science, mathematics, politics, theology, philosophy and poetry, and took up the study of Latin at 55. When he retired to the country, senile at 80, he endowed homes for indigent mothers and passionately adopted a pantheism that sent him roaming the countryside, embracing and talking to the trees. He died in 1788, the year before the society he chronicled...
...Confessions. One is the absence of any document out of the Lutheran tradition. Heidelberg is German Reformed (1563) and Barmen is German (1934), but one of Luther's catechisms would have been helpful. A second is that no witnesses are included from the continents of Asia, Africa, and Latin America. Perhaps a supplemental book with representative liturgies, statements, or documents from non-confessional churches could be put together...