Word: latinizing
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...ends up, after several bureaucratic shufflings, in the little-known Latin American province of Qatab, where the CIA keeps an eye on him and he, in turn, ventures out among the untamed Xixi people to keep an eye on them for the CIA and make sure no one tampers with their uranium deposits. His story--told through entries in his journal, letters to and from his girlfriend at Harvard Summer School, and the government's spying reports on him--takes on endless complications as he gets deeper and deeper into Xixi culture and trouble...
...Teresita Alvarez '76, who came here as a freshman from Cuba, is extremely involved in Quincy House and College committees. She enjoys seeing other Cubans now and then, she says, to have a chance to speak her own language and enjoy shared backgrounds, but she says most of the Latin Americans she knows don't just rely on each other for friendship. Her freshman year she barely knew any foreign students at all, and now she sees those she does know only occasionally. "The type of student you get here will get involved in activities anyway," she says...
Holloway said, "I felt more comfortable in Panama than many white Americans. The Panamanians, black and Latin, treated you differently. They'd say, "She's black...
...Guizar says, he would like to do advanced work in International Studies and someday "though I know it's really far-fetched, I think I'd like to work as something like Undersecretary for Latin America in the State Department." How would he change American foreign policy? "Stop supporting all the fascist dictatorships," Guizar says...
Malin explains the comparatively small number of female foreign students by recounting the story of a Latin American woman victimized by a double standard in her family that kept her home while her brothers went to college. "In some countries it is simply not acceptable for a woman to leave her family. It implies something about the family as a unit," he says...