Word: latinizing
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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Zbigniew Brzezinski, President-elect Carter's national security advisor, has named Robert A. Pastor, a teaching fellow and Ph.D. candidate in the Government Department, as Latin American Affairs co-ordinator for the National Security Council...
...poor and voiceless among them, who will also mourn Daley. But they will mourn the passing of the man, not of his city. For them Daley worked, though Chicago did not. They welcome the changes that will take place. Last week the acting mayor, under pressure from the Latin community, ordered Spanish taught to firemen working in Latin areas. That wouldn't have happened in what are now quickly becoming the old days--the Daley years...
...head off any Peruvian-Chilean clash, Latin American bishops and U.S. diplomats, among others, have been trying to defuse the situation. However, both countries have already suffered a defeat-wasting valuable resources on arms at a time when the money could have been spent on advancing their underdeveloped economies...
When Andy Puopolo came to Harvard, despite an outstanding high school career at Boston Latin, there were many who thought, and told him so, that he was too small to play Ivy League football. An on-again, off-again freshman season, a sophomore year spent mostly on the bench, and a painful and continually aggravated knee injury, would doubtless have been enough to convince almost anyone else to abandon their hopes for football stardom. But that wouldn't have been in character for Andy Puopolo. And it was this dedication, this will to persevere, and a quiet, unassuming, but ever...
...AUTUMN OF THE PATRIARCH by Gabriel Garcia Marquéz. The author of the masterly One Hundred Years of Solitude (1970) imagines a mythic despot in a fictitious South American country and creates a Kafkaesque saga with a Latin beat...