Word: cosmopolitan
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...come upon an intelligent elitist long, long dead, especially when we live in an Ephesus of our own, filled, as his was, with mediocrities and idiot intoxications. Haxton writes in his introduction: "To a sober mind, the drunkenness of cultic worshipers must have been particularly unappealing in a cosmopolitan city like Ephesus, with gods of wine on every side, drunken Greeks initiated into the Thracian ecstacies of Dionysius running amok with drunken Phrygians worshipping Sabazius, Lydians possessed by Bassareus, and Cretans in the frenzy of Zagreus, all claiming in their cups to have transcended understanding...
...Holdsworth casts her net beyond the Peak and allows her subjects to tell how radically expatriate Hong Kong changed, especially in the last 20 years of British rule. That was when a new class of expat arrived?lawyers, bankers, restaurateurs?who helped transform a far-flung colony into a cosmopolitan business center...
...Hong Kong is very cosmopolitan. If Shanghai is the gateway to China, Hong Kong is the gateway to Southeast Asia. Countries like Malaysia, Singapore and Indonesia can borrow money from the American and Japanese banks in Hong Kong. You cannot do this in Shanghai. And Hong Kong has a good port and very good port control. Hong Kong also has the rule of law and an efficient administrative system. Shanghai can hardly replace Hong Kong in those respects...
...garb of saris and kurtas at home. The fashion code here is Tommy Hilfiger and Prada. Even the managers, dressed in fitted black suits, shirts and ties, look sharp. Large beanbags are the furniture of choice and the tables are only knee high?the better to reach for that cosmopolitan without having to struggle out of your chair's deep embrace. When the thumping beats of the house DJ start eliciting signs of a headache tomorrow, just step out the sliding door to the hotel's pool area where covered verandas offer padded bamboo benches and the cool caress...
...writer, an ambition he'd harbored since second grade. Working three jobs, he eventually made his way to Connecticut State University, then left for New York City. After getting a master's degree from N.Y.U., he read fiction submissions for Redbook for 50[cents] apiece. He moved on to Cosmopolitan, where in two years he became books editor...