Word: latinizing
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...official schedule. Rosalynn goes well prepared to those lunches a deux on the secluded patio out side his West Wing study. "I've got a whole file of things I take to talk about with him." For example, she told him much about her diplomatic foray through Latin America as the President's representative, which a lot of people thought was not a proper role for a First Lady...
...Latin Olympics revel in gender and case
...successful has Carter's human rights policy been? If its aim is to burnish the U.S. image abroad, the policy has been a great triumph in many regions. From Latin America, TIME Correspondent Barry Hillenbrand reports that among the people?but not the officials?Carter is fast becoming as admired as the much venerated John Kennedy. Notes a leading opposition politician in Chile: "The U.S. is now in the forefront of the fight for freedom and has once again assumed moral and spiritual leadership...
...half of all the delegates at the Kansas City convention were Catholics. Among the featured speakers they came to hear was Leo Jozef Cardinal Suenens of Belgium, a leader of Catholic liberals, who celebrated Mass at the stadium. At one point he began chanting, "Ad gallum hum ..." Was it Latin? No. he too was speaking in tongues...
...presupposed a very grand rhetoric, which Rubens based squarely on his study of classical art. As a young man in Rome, he made a sketch of every antique marble he could lay eyes on. His vast correspondence shows that he had read and memorized work by almost every known Latin writer, from Cicero to Plautus. He recommended "a complete absorption in statues," but "one must avoid the effect of stone." Rubens' large altarpiece, still in Antwerp Cathedral, of the Descent from the Cross, 1611-14, demonstrates exactly what he meant. The figure of Christ, the pale, dead God sliding...