Word: latinizing
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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Central Concern. Beyond these top-priority policy matters, the new Administration will address a wide range of economically related issues: arms sales, nuclear proliferation, energy, food, population control and the economic development of Africa, Asia and Latin America. According to Vance, these "clusters of issues" must become "a central concern of foreign-policy discussions in the U.S. and throughout the world...
...Billy Budd may soon earn a similar popularity, and if it does not, the underappreciated A Midsummer Night's Dream should. His plentiful songs and chamber works show the soulful, reflective side of his nature. The declamatory, powerful War Requiem (1962), which deploys huge forces and intersperses liturgical Latin with antiwar poetry, is perhaps his best work. Not one to compose in a vacuum or ivory tower, Britten in 1948 joined with friends to found the Aldeburgh Festival in a little town on the bleak Suffolk coast he called home...
...AUTUMN of the Patriarch, the theme is once again solitude, this time that of the dictator of a mythical Latin American nation, who simply will not die: he measures his age by the appearances of Haley's Comet. In fact, he is so reclusive, old and omnipotent that the stages of his decline loom like the death...
Marichal said the Spanish government has always controlled the selection of the Cervantes Prize winner. This year, in a move to involve the Latin American countries, the government allowed the Association of Spanish-Speaking Academies to make the selection. Approximately 20 academies of the Spanish speaking nations are members of the group...
Designers of the latest Paris fashions owe a debt to the Latin poet Virgil for their "new" ideas. The photographs worthily exemplify his description of Venus as a huntress: nuda genu, nodoque sinus collecta fluentis [bare knee, and flowing robes gathered in a knot...