Word: cosmopolitan
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This recognition of the cosmopolitan imperative in American life is both correct and in line with the comparable recognition of the cosmopolitan imperative by Jewish, Irish, Italian, Asian, and other ethnic students at Harvard. The cosmopolitan imperative, moreover, does not preclude intra-ethnic relationships and networks, as Timothy Wilkins, head of Harvard Black Students Association, intimated in his comment that Black students "see that Harvard is the only Ivy League school without a Third World Center and they think that the University wants all Black students to assimilate." The cosmopolitan imperative demands only that the parochial impulses and proclivities that...
...Presbyterian clergyman who helped engineer the nighttime raid of Baltimore's Colts last year. His city is already home to the Christian Church (Disciples of Christ), and Hudnut is quietly but insistently hymning the praises of Indianapolis to various Protestant officials. Some church staffers, accustomed to the cosmopolitan lures of New York, are shuddering at the prospect of a town that once kiddingly called itself Dullsville. Even if none of the restive churches wind up in Indianapolis, Protestant laity throughout the country may well agree with Mayor Hudnut when he says, "Some of the very, very liberal people who seem...
...selfish. They want theirs." Yet she was quick to distribute the blame. "Some women need the message: loosen up, be sexier." Above all, Landers cited the so-called sexual revolution as the root of many of the problems. "Women are anxious," she said. "They're reading in Cosmopolitan that if they don't have five orgasms a night they're undersexed or freaks...
...would you rather be having sex with your wife or out bowling with your buddies?" Royko continued with a more pointed observation: "Nobody ever asks us about our needs, our frustrations . . . It's always, 'Madam, do you have your quota of orgasms?' " One putative expert on that subject, Cosmopolitan Editor Helen Gurley Brown, had her own reaction to the hubbub. Hurried, "lackluster" sex is rotten for everybody, she concluded, while good sex is "pretty terrific"-- second only, in her experienced opinion, to good food...
...NEVILLE BROTHERS: NEVILLE-IZATION (Black Top). Cosmopolitan funk, New Orleans style...