Word: cosmopolitanism
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...politics aside, however, Belfast is a pretty nifty place for the 20-something American college student (myself, for example). There are gobs of cosmopolitan student pubs at the center of town, serving up truly amazing amounts of alcohol seven days a week. There's a ten-screen megaplex just down the road offering unlimited movies all summer for the ridiculous price of $35.00. There's an internet cafe, great Indian food and the BBC broadcasting commercial-free 24 hours a day, seven days a week...
...driving through strange neighborhoods, waiting at stoplights whose pauses I do not know, again I am struck by the absence of variance, of movement, of the spectrum I unknowingly came to treasure in my cosmopolitan childhood home. I am alone here. Always accused of being a magnet for disease, a walking accident, it occurs to me that I may have unconsciously picked up another malady...
...driving through strange neighborhoods, waiting at stoplights whose pauses I do not know, again I am struck by the absence of variance, of movement, of the spectrum I unknowingly came to treasure in my cosmopolitan childhood home. I am alone here. Always accused of being a magnet for disease, a walking accident, it occurs to me that I may have unconsciously picked up another malady...
...store began as the Square's sole international foods store, but its classy and cosmopolitan wares hold appeal for the new, sophisticated Square residents as well, says Donez Cardullo, granddaughter of the store's founder...
...ultimately, the building, even in itscommercialized state, reflects the character ofHarvard Square as Cambridge has evolved from asmall-town city with local industries to the moreupscale cosmopolitan center that...