Word: latinizing
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...Honour points out, even Columbus described the Caribbean in phrases taken from Latin poetry describing the mythical Golden Age. It was culturally impossible for him, or his immediate followers, not to do so. The woodcuts and paintings of the time reflect that Arcadian vision, which would duly be modulated into the cult of the Noble Savage. By 1505, only five years after Cabral's discovery of Brazil, the first American Indian had made his way into a European painting: a Tupinamba chief, crowned with feathers, included as one of the Wise Men from the East in a Portuguese nativity...
Like others of its genre, the show stands or falls largely on the basis of its music. Leonard Bernstein's score is characterized by its eclecticism; complementing the melancholy strains of "Ohio" and the lyricism of "It's Love" are the Latin American rhythms of "Conga," the Irish jig "My Darlin' Eileen" and the jazzy "Swing." While Wonderful Town is no West Side Story, its finest tunes, like "Ohio" and It's Love," are definitely hummable...
...wants to get fresh, it has freshman Marc Hetnik (center) and John Fox (left wing) on the third line, and fifth defenseman Jack O'Callahan, out of Boston Latin...
...talk" led into a series of platitudinous challenges which, the professor alleged, conflicted with Bailyn's remarks. Then, a dizzying, anglophilic puree of revisionism: "Can you really say that this was a 'revolution?' ...And when the call came to Washington to extend the revolution south of its border, to Latin America--the answer was no...So wouldn't it be more useful for historians henceforth to refer to this not as the 'American Revolution' but as a quite natural movement in favor of the independence of the American portion of the British Empire...
...this does not mean Latin Hitlers or Stalins. You can have freewheeling political conversations in Chile, Peru, Brazil and Argentina. The press has considerable freedom in Argentina, some in Brazil and Peru, and a bit in Chile. In Peru, there is a legally active opposition party, though it has no election to get ready...