Word: latinity
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Dates: during 1970-1970
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...committee is not alone in its denunciation. In the past two years, churchmen, students and international organizations have brought to light sordid stories of terror and torture. Repressive measures have increased dramatically since December 1968, when the military men who have run Latin America's largest and most populous (90,840,000) nation for six years sent the Congress temporarily packing and curbed most political activities. Denied outlets for protest, some dissidents turned to terrorist acts ranging from bombing and bank robbery to kidnaping and murder. With estimates of the number of terrorists running as high...
...other two novelties are internationally flavored departures from Moiseyev's customary exploration of the Russian heritage. Sicilian Tarantella is a festive evocation of Italy's traditional folk dance, while Gaucho is a foot-stomping challenge match for three male soloists, dressed like Argentine cowboys on parade. The Latin rhythms have the right ring, but Moiseyev's cowboys look like Cossacks in disguise, and his Sicilian peasants might just as easily be performing a traditional specialty of Turkestan...
Cultural Carpetbagger. In his unique and cheerful way, Author Desani is a one-man tower of Babel, a cultural carpetbagger who hawks the flotsam and jetsam of at least five civilizations and three continents, with odd lots of Latin, Shakespeare and the Bible thrown in. His peculiar comic note derives not only from this exotic mixture, but also from his sweet-tempered narrative of sour experiences. The punning jumble that results might be called a cracked hymn to the Joyce and sorrows of life...
...Machine. The P.R.I., the first party created after Mexico's 1910 Revolution, has won every national election in the past 41 years. Successive P.R.I, governments have given Mexico one of the most prosperous urban economies in Latin America. During the past decade, the country's economic growth increased almost...
...left, but upward and onward." Initially, he struck observers as a competent machine politician. Now they are not so sure. His tireless stumping, plus the fact that he is the father of eight, persuaded many Mexicans that Echeverría possesses what might be called "macharismo"-the requisite Latin American machismo mixed with political charisma. Dressed casually wherever he went, he dined with peasant families, spoke informally about national problems and debated with students whenever he could. Defending the jailing of rioters, he said: "Not one was arrested for writing a novel or a poem...