Word: cosmopolitanism
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...acknowledges this with a systems approach that employs computers, a team of advisers and editors and an army of 2,300 contributors (20% of them British; 35% American). It is not a revision but a new construction job, as if an old walled city had been leveled and a cosmopolitan capital built in its place. Compared with the 1954 model the New Grove is 97% new; its size has more than doubled (to 20 volumes with 15,000 pages); and cost of a set has soared from...
Meantime from the podium he projected another character of his own creation, the cosmopolitan, eccentric lecturer: authoritarian but also authoritative, alternately mock-stern and mischievous (he sometimes started over in mid-lecture, to see how long it would take the class to notice), arrogant yet never harsh, in fact downright kindly at times. After explaining that the transformed Gregor Samsa in Kafka's The Metamorphosis was not a cockroach but a beetle, and that beneath his carapace he possessed unsuspected wings, Nabokov told his students: "This is a very nice observation on my part to be treasured all your...
...lack of unions. The natural distrust of the divergent nationalities, combined with an easily accessible competing labor pool in Boston, discouraged organized labor--many strikes were launched and only a very few succeeded. The growth transformed Cambridgeport from "a homogeneous New England village to the beginning of a highly cosmopolitan industrial area. Its biggest industries were high class--the Riverside Press, the Athenaum Press, and Little, Brown and Co. publishers. The one factory that wasn't producing books--Mason and Hamlin Co.,--turned out pianos...
...million population. The early arrivals managed to get along with the area's non-Latin whites (47%) and blacks (15%); indeed, the Cubans' energies helped to transform Miami from a stagnating tourist town into a vibrant trade and financial center. And the Cuban advance guard created a cosmopolitan atmosphere in which the new arrivals can feel culturally at home: in Miami's Little Havana, Spanish is the predominant language, and at almost every corner there is a stand selling the dark, strong café cubano...
Well, I've got to run. This working girl is going to skip lunch and use the hour to make love to Roger. Some 55% of us say we indulge in such sex breaks. I love that survey. I guess you could say I'm that median Cosmopolitan girl...