Word: latinizing
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...begins with a close textual analysis of Mather's study of Winthrop and expands into an examination of its cultural context and implications as a testament to American identity--is potentially workable, even exciting. What mars its execution, however, is Bercovitch's overfondness for long, convoluted sentences punctuated with Latin expressions, his heavy use of quotations, and the slowness with which he moves from concept to concept. Together these flaws give his prose a muddy, static quality...
...Chilean armed forces had a tradition of non-involvement that was rare in Latin America, but Rojas shows that only disagreements among three factions within the military postponed the coup until September 1973. The "reformists" wanted to run the country alone; the "hardliners" wanted to give power back to the centrist parties immediately; the "constitutionalists" wanted to enter into a coalition government, with Allende on hand to "control the masses." The deterioration of a compromise worked out by the "constitutionalist" generals--as well as the knowledge that powerful Chilean industrialists and the United States government urged intervention--precipitated the coup...
Last spring President Bok took three months to find a new Lowell House master to replace Zeph Stewart, professor of Greek and Latin. Four professors and one administrator turned down the opening before William H. Bossert, McKay Professor of Applied Mathematics, accepted it on a provisional--and later final--basis...
Tupamaros (a documentary about Latin American urban guerillas), Friday and Saturday...
Your article does not reflect the geographical balance of foreign students at Harvard. Over two thirds of the students interviewed were from Asia; only two Latin Americans and three Europeans were mentioned. Such a narrow focus cannot produce a balanced view of the feelings of foreign students...