Word: latins
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Then from the White House came the first acknowledgement of trouble; a firm order that recognition of the military junta ruling Venezuela must be held up. Meanwhile, U.S. ambassadors in Latin capitals were instructed to ask advice from the governments to which they were accredited on how best to buttress democracy in the hemisphere...
...Friendly Climate. Busy with the problems of Europe and the cold war, the State Department all but swept Latin America's problems under the rug. The tightly integrated policy of Good Neighbor days had been disposed of in the same way. The constant plugging of democracy (a campaign backed up by U.S. dollars) had been cut to ribbons. With neglect, Latin America's frail democracies tended to wither, and U.S. prestige sank...
...Latin American policy, once a major item on the White House agenda, was left largely to the direction of 45-year-old Paul Daniels, head of the State Department's Office of American Republics Affairs. Twenty years as a foreign service officer had made stocky, Andover-and-Yale-bred Paul Daniels an expert on the mechanics of diplomacy, but it had also made him cautious. Moreover, long years in Latin America had made him something less than optimistic about democracy's chances there...
...another $8. Students had to draw and fetch their own water from the university well, chop down campus trees for firewood, and raid nearby farms for straw for their mattresses. Daily chapel was compulsory; so were six hours of daily attendance at lectures and recitations. There were few electives; Latin, Greek and mathematics were the solid meat & potatoes of the classical course, and upperclassmen were also fed on rhetoric and mental and moral philosophy...
Lend an Ear attempts other targets with varying aim: those squalid Latin American tourist villages where hot sex and heavy gunfire are hourly occurrences in the public square; a bandleader and his wife sweating to live up to the lurid-and contradictory-bulletins the columnists issue about them; an old-fashioned Friday afternoon dancing class, in which the Penrod motif loses out to the pretty-pretty. There are the usual-all-too-usual-dance numbers in Lend an Ear, and some pleasantly forgettable tunes...