Word: latinizing
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...puzzled and a little disheartened that the Pope, after rejecting social and political activity by the clergy during his visit in Latin America, spoke in very social and political terms when he was in Poland. I have to conclude that his concern is with the fate of the church, rather than the welfare of the people...
...Administration is trying a new approach. It was expressed by Assistant Secretary of State Viron Vaky, who told a congressional subcommittee: "Nicaraguans and our democratic friends in Latin America have no intention of seeing Nicaragua become a second Cuba and are determined to prevent the subversion of their anti-Somoza cause by Castro." At week's end, new Ambassador Lawrence Pezzullo flew into Managua to meet with Somoza. Simultaneously, veteran Diplomat William G. Bowdler, who was on the U.S. team that earlier this year tried to persuade Somoza to step down, met with representatives of the rebel government...
...leaders "possess an infernal machine capable of blowing capitalism sky-high or else some virtually infallible instrument for guiding their strategy." This crisis of confidence has been accelerated in Europe by the Third World's pervasive contempt for the West. Aron believes that the tendency of Africans and Latin Americans to blame the persistence of poverty on colonialism is a major victory of the Marxist-Leninists. He writes: "The propaganda message is that the Europeans owe their prosperity not to their own work but to the exploitation of the poor; imperialists, even when they withdraw from all their possessions...
...creation of a Cuban-style Communist government in Nicaragua. Declared Vance: "There is mounting evidence of involvement by Cuba and others in the internal problems of Nicaragua." That charge drew an angry reply from Cuba's foreign ministry, which released a statement accusing the U.S. of "pressuring several Latin American diplomatic representatives to come to an agreement in the OAS that would facilitate a military intervention in Nicaragua" in order to "preserve the essence and basis of the bloody and corrupt neo-colonial regime dominated...
...original Latin vacatio-an emptying, a suspension of normal activity, an absence of something-performs a small mystic flip when it encounters Pascal's thought: "The sole cause of man's unhappiness is that he does not know how to stay quietly in his room." But vacations, in a secular sense, have an ancient history. Inns, restaurants, baths and theaters turned up in the archaeological digs at Herculaneum and Pompeii. For just as long, vacationers have been subdivided into spiritual castes: the enthusiasts who live all the rest of the year waiting for their temporary release, like school...