Word: latinizing
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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Walk down Columbia Street at night and the chances are good you will hear music with a Latin beat escaping from the windows. Winter has driven the guitar-strumming, beer-drinking knots of friends off the stoops, it's true. The windows are shut tight against a cold which seems even harsher compared to the tropical warmth of Havana and San Juan. But though forced inside by an inhospitable climate, the music will not be imprisoned. The salsa sound of Puerto Rico, or perhaps a Mexican ballad, filters faintly out to the street, signalling to the passerby that he walks...
Just a subway stop from Harvard, the people of el barrio, the neighborhood, are playing out their roles in the largest wave of immigration in recent years, the wave of Latin Americans from Mexico, Puerto Rico, and Central and South America which has swelled the United States Spanish-speaking population to an estimated eight to 12 million people. They are repeating the drama which built this nation, the drama of the immigrant. Like those who came before, they are finding these shores of promise to hold a mixture of reward and tribulation...
...made available $3.9 billion in loan money to Britain in return for a severe austerity program. The IMF loan prevented a collapse of sterling. A long period of voluntary wage restraint, accepted by Britain's powerful trade unions at the Labor government's prompting, has reduced inflation from a Latin American annual rate of almost 27% in August 1975 to a still high...
...assigning myths, novels and legends to the more advanced students. She draws up her own comprehension questions based on the classics ("Mount Olympus is the home of the Norse gods. True or false?") and has her pupils-who include her own eight-year-old daughter-memorize poems and Latin vocabulary. "Who can say that the classics are too hard for eight-year-olds?" she argues. "Why spoon-feed them until they choke on an overdose of boredom...
...Last week the Alaska capital site planning commission chose the design of a new state capital to rise in the valley. Unless opponents of the plan develop unexpected new strength, this idyllic subarctic landscape will become a kind of Brasilia of the North-though hardly as monumental as its Latin counterpart and far more in harmony with the unspoiled surroundings...