Word: latinizing
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...Michael Herbert Dengler would have had less trouble in his battle to change his name to a numeral and become Mr. 1069 [Dec. 12], if he had simply switched from English to Latin and become Mr. Decimus Sextus Nonus...
...first issue of Maledicta ("bad words" in Latin) is now in the hands of 1,480 subscribers who pay $10 per year. It contains scholarly dissertations on such subjects as Yiddish insults, scurrilous Elizabethan and Jacobean sexual metaphors, and Latent Accusative Tendencies in the Skopje Dialect. Other articles include a bracing harangue by Aman himself, directed at academics who do not appreciate his life's work ("biodegradable nitwits" and "cacademoids," a neologism formed from "academic" and the baby-talk word for feces, "caca"). The coat of arms of his International Maledicta Society is a 3,000-year-old obscene...
...barrio, bodegas (grocery stores) like El Coloso on Broadway which cater to Latin American tastes are close at hand. Also close by is Casa Alegre, a Latin-American record store which sells Spanish newspapers and statuettes of the saints as a sideline. Around the corner in Central Square is the Latin-O Restaurant. Its authentic Hispanic cuisin attracts a 90 per cent Anglo clientele, however. After all, local Hispanics can buy in the neighborhood bodega the same ingredients the Latin-O uses, and make equally authentic Latin cuisine in their homes...
Perhaps the sweetest reminder of home is the dance party, costing up to $15 a couple, where Latin-style bands play the marimba of Guatemala, the cumbia of Colombia, and Puerto Rican salsa. A band may be flown specially from Puerto Rico or Central America for the event, if enough tickets can be sold. Otherwise there is plenty of local talent, such as Los Estrellos Latinos de Boston...
Recently the Union Juvenil Hispana of Cambridge Rindge Latin School sponsored a tund-raising dance at the Santo Cristo Club on Cambridge Street which featured a Dominican band, the Conjunto Imperio Latino, door prizes, and lots of dancing. Such events are much more than mere moneymakers...