Latin American Structuralist

Famous quotes containing the words latin and/or american:

    “But these young scholars, who invade our hills,
    Bold as the engineer who fells the wood,
    And travelling often in the cut he makes,
    Love not the flower they pluck, and know it not
    And all their botany is Latin names.
    The old men studied magic in the flowers.”
    —Ralph Waldo Emerson (1803–1882)

    “The immense popularity of American movies abroad demonstrates that Europe is the unfinished negative of which America is the proof.”
    —Mary McCarthy (1912–1989)