Word: latinizing
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...eleven rooms, seven baths and a projection studio. Inevitably, there is a kidney-shaped pool, and also a playroom for his three latest children, aged 18 months to ten years, by present wife Pilar Pallette, 38, a Peruvian-born actress-model. He has had two previous wives (both also Latin American), four other children and twelve grandchildren...
...when he writes in an adaptation of Juvenal, "What do you hope from your white pubic hairs," it is not just another attempt to render Latin into English verse, but to say something sharp and contemporary about how the current U.S. cult of youth and happiness, through sex, bears down heavily on older...
...beginning of his senior year," Eberhart recalls, "Lowell brought me a book of 30 poems-the first fruits of his labors-shyly placing it on my desk when I was not there. I cherish this unpublished book to this day. It showed the young poet heavily influenced by Latin models, but true strokes of imagination came through...
With the fresh faces have come a number of changes. Cutting overhead as well as appeasing native resentment over its huge land holdings, the company since 1960 has pared its acreage in Latin American banana lands from 134,593 to 81,089, has managed to increase output just the same. That feat is due largely to the company's development of the new Valery strain of banana, which endures wind, rain and disease better than the company's old Gros Michel (also called Big Mike) variety. Valery also gets a much higher per-acre yield. Even the Valery...
Alumni gifts have allowed establishment of many of these series. One of the oldest, and the largest, is the Loeb Classical Library, a 400-volume presentation of Greek and Latin works with the original text on the lefthand page and the translation on the right. Supported by a $300,000 endowment, it is the bequest of James C. Loeb '88, a bachelor banker who after his retirement in 1901 lived in a Bavarian castle surrounded by books...