Word: cosmopolitan
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...Iranian crisis was in its seventh week and OPEC was propelling oil prices to historic heights. But in that cosmopolitan capital on the Potomac, the best and the brightest were preoccupied with a more delicate matter: the open or shut case of Zbigniew Brzezinski's fly. As it turned out, President Carter's National Security Adviser had kept his zipper up, and the Washington Post was caught with its trousers down...
...swept the province like a whirlwind. A critic for the Edmonton Journal figured that in twelve months he covered 136 first nights of theater, opera and symphony. Calgary, once just a prairie cow town that was famous for its Calgary Redeye (beer and tomato juice), has become a cosmopolitan community of 550,000. Nearly 60% of the people are not of English-speaking origin, and despite the presence of some 60,000 Americans in the area, the largest ethnic group is German. This is Canada's fastest growing large city. In the past five years, 20 foreign banks have...
...November Cosmopolitan brims with the customary hints for foraging single gals ("If you have invited someone to your home for sex ... it only takes a few minutes to change the sheets"). But it also carries some closely reasoned political advice: a 3,700-word article by Columbia Law School Professor Ruth Bader Ginsburg urging passage of the Equal Rights Amendment. To give the ERA cause a boost, Cosmo and 32 other women's magazines from Ms. to Playgirl, from Vogue to House & Garden agreed to run pieces about the amendment in their next month's issue...
Perelman's cosmopolitan imagination had a definite surreal twist to it. In "low dudgeon," he viewed the world's quirky moving parts as threats to his safety, sanity and solvency. Acres and Pains was a 1947 collection of mock-Thoreauvian japes inspired by the author's four dec ades of semirustication on 100 stony acres in Bucks County, Pa. His definition of a gentleman's farm: "An irregular patch of nettles bounded by short-term notes, containing a fool and his wife who didn't know enough to stay in the city...
...West. Presiding over the show was country's foremost devotee. Jimmy Carter embraced Singer Dolly Parton, with First Lady Rosalynn Carter's approval. They were, after all, huggin' cousins. Parton's home town of Sevierville, Tenn, (pronounced Sev-yer-vul), was "as large and cosmopolitan as Plains, Ga." Country music, Carter told an urbane black-tie audience, "records the bad times and sad times, wasted lives, dashed dreams, the dirty dog that took advantage of you. But it also celebrates the good and enduring things in life: home and family, faith and trust, love that lasts...