Word: latinizing
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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Chimed in an ex-Catholic who misses the Latin Mass: "The demystification of the church turned me off." Even a Massachusetts girl who has broken with the movement says wistfully, "At the ashram we had the nucleus of a real family. It was one of the most beautiful things I have ever experienced...
...weakness of family structure, the presence of competing street values, and the lack of hope amidst affluence all around that make the American underclass unique among the world's poor peoples. Reports TIME Atlanta Bureau Chief Rudolph Rauch, who until recently was stationed in Latin America: "Almost anyone who has lived in or near the crowded barrios of South America knows that looting on the scale that occurred in New York could almost never happen there?and not because the army would be standing by to shoot looters. Family structure has not broken down in South America...
DIED. Lou Walters, 81, father of TV newswoman Barbara Walters and a nightclub impresario who founded New York's famed Latin Quarter in 1942; of a heart attack; in Miami. Impish and softspoken, the London-born Walters made and spent millions on his lavish supper clubs in Boston, New York and Miami. His cavalcade of performers included Frank Sinatra, Marlene Dietrich, Milton Berle and Mae West. A hit-and-miss Broadway producer, Walters went bankrupt in 1966 when his deals started to sour. In his glory days, his celebrity circle surrounded Daughter Barbara, who was never awed by stars...
Carter's early forcefulness on the human rights issue drove six Latin countries -Argentina, Uruguay, Chile, El Salvador, Guatemala and Brazil-to reject U.S. military assistance rather than agree to prepare "report cards" for Washington on human rights. The Administration hopes to keep relations from deteriorating further-without, however, backing off on human rights entirely. Thus Todman was to shore up relations with the continent's right-wing military regimes, while Derian would press Carter's human rights campaign with civic leaders and government officials. In what was seen as an important move to improve relations with...
Faced with a tough government austerity program and a period of inevitable economic hardship, millions of Italians have fallen back on a uniquely Latin approach to the problem of how to preserve the vestiges of their fast disappearing dolce vita. With wage gains quickly eroded by runaway inflation and jobs in any case difficult to find, many workers have simply quit the official system to work in the booming secret economy that has come to be known as il lavoro nero, the labor black market...