Word: latins
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Minor undercurrents of Communism and Nazism in Latin America are not undermining a continual admiration and loyalty, for the United States, Marcel Bataillon, France's highest-ranking authority on Spanish literatures, said yesterday following his lecture on "Religious Drama and Theater of the Golden Age of Spain" at the Modern Language Center...
...Latin Americans are generally steering clear of the few Communist and Nazi sympathizers who operate south of the border. They continue to follow and even imitate American customs and ideals, Bataillon added...
Bataillon's summer mission to Latin America, which covered five countries, was sponsored by the French government. He is currently touring such large American colleges as Harvard, Yale, California, and Smith...
...College de France, Bataillon devotes most of his time to private study in a method similar to that of the Harvard Society of Fellows, and the Princeton Institute for Advanced Studies. 'Professor of the Languages and Literatures of the Iberian Peninsula and of Latin America," he gives frequent lectures in Paris...
...short book, simply written. Like the writings of the earliest Christians, it speaks directly to ordinary people, not merely to theologians or philosophers. It is perhaps the nearest, clearest answer that has been made to the simple question: how to be a Christian. In 15th Century Latin or in modern English, the words of Thomas à Kempis are unequivocal...