Word: latinizing
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...could make seem charming. He addressed 60,000 at Shea Stadium in four of the seven languages he speaks with facility? English, Spanish, Italian and of course, Polish (French, Latin and German are the other three) and drew applause by simply pronouncing place names with theatrical timing, greeting the crowds "from Long Island? and New Jersey? and Connecticut [pronouncing all three c's]? and [long pause] Broke-leen...
...Second Vatican Council did much to remove what was for non-Catholics the ominousness of Catholicism. In 1964 Vatican II abolished the absolutist doctrine that "error has no rights," and instead accepted the right of all religions to worship as they will. Church Latin, unintelligible and sinister to many, gave way to the vernacular, and even some times to a rather cloying liturgical sweetness: guitar strumming around the altar, folk songs, the priest rigged out in sunburst vest ments that proclaim HERE COMES THE SON. Gone are the Legion of Decency, which prescribed and proscribed movies, and the censorious Index...
Experts in Latin American history, arts and economics will speak today during the annual meeting of the New England Council on Latin American Studies at the Center for International Affairs, 1737 Cambridge...
Other panelists include Clemency C. Coggins '68, teaching assistant in Fine Arts and a research fellow at the Peabody Museum, who will speak on pre-hispanic art history; Marguala I. Arenas, professor of Latin American literature at the American International College, who will discuss the role of the Indian in Ecuadoriaon and Peruvian literature; and Patricia Fernandez-Kelly of Rutgers University, Duke University and Colegie de Mexico, who will speak on women's work and social change in Mexican border industries. Other panelists will discuss economic and energy policies in Latin America...
...game preserves and cattle ranches, have been displaced from the top of the social pyramid by a new elite of rich cosmopolitan entrepreneurs and a growing middle class. Mexico City's Bernardo Quintana, for example, built the capital's famous subway system and now handles construction projects all over Latin America. Another highly successful family is that of Garza Sadas of Monterrey, whose investments in tourism and Grupo Industrial Alfa, an industrial conglomerate, are estimated to be worth $1 billion...