Word: cosmopolitanism
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...holds a doctorate in women's studies from Yale, and Marcelle Karp, a 34-year-old TV producer, Bust is a magazine intentionally written in teenspeak but meant for female readers in their late 20s and early 30s. It was developed as an antidote to magazines like Cosmopolitan, which present female sexuality so cartoonishly. However noble the intent, the message is often lost in the magazine's adolescent tone: read about an adult woman's first-time vibrator discoveries or a scintillating account of lust for delivery men in an article titled "Sex with the UPS Guy." Of the magazine...
...freely admit, a visitor--who doesn't even speak the language. I am a novice traveler. But consider one observation from my stay in the cosmopolitan city of Fukuoka...
...course, many in the Harvard community expect the exact opposite answer and are puzzled--if not outright critical--of students who haven't seen the light and decided to join their classmates in more exciting, cosmopolitan settings. After all, only the Unabomber wants to live in the middle of nowhere, right...
John Paul II is by every measurement as cosmopolitan in experience and steeped in erudition as anyone who comes to mind. He speaks eight languages fluently, he is the author of scholarly books and dissertations and has traveled in virtually every country in the world. One supposes that, notwithstanding, he is not by personal experience familiar with the kind of thing one can pick up to read in urban kiosks or turn to view on late-night television. But you'd still deduce that Pope John would not be surprised by anything he read or saw: he has been exposed...
...Some people are bothered by the censorship issues," he said. "Some people would object to Commentary or Cosmopolitan if we had those in the barber shop...