Word: latinizing
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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This repeater, Paco Canales, has worked ten long years to develop the talent that has helped him score points consistently for Harvard. His efforts have earned him a position on Puerto Rico's Latin Cup team; and in this role he will leave tomorrow for Rome to compete in the two-day event...
...makes it because he is cool and very smart. He starts as a student of the classics. At the University of Chicago he immediately impresses teachers with his grasp of Latin and Greek. As a graduate student he is already publishing acclaimed scholarly papers. Jed's success in academe is never in doubt...
...developing countries dies before he or she becomes five years old. And many of those who survive are mentally and physically retarded because of malnutrition. These people are not part of a disaster famine that captures the attention of the news media; they die of slow starvation in India, Latin America, and Africa. And when drought robs their crops of water, disastrous famine quickly sets in because, having been weakened by malnutrition, they have no defense against starvation. In the African Sahel, Bangladesh, and India, millions have perished under these famine conditions...
...sloppiness found in much of today's writing indicates a deeper unconcern with fact and accuracy, Tuchman told an audience of approximately 100 people in Harvard Hall. Tuchman said that a true feeling for grammatical structure could come only from a study of Latin no longer emphasized in modern education...
...does not have to extol a radical party line to appreciate the avowedly political Passion of Antigona Perez. Only those who disfavor heroism and unalloyed democracy could find the play ideologically objectionable. Based on the Greek tragedy Antigone, the story is set in a modern Latin American distatorship where Antigona Perez has defied the State and now waits execution. The rape, tortune and brutality that is a way of life in such repressive regimes is minimal on stage. In fact, the play asks one to raise one's consciousness only so far as to accept that every action...