Word: cosmopolitanism
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...Cosmopolitan praised the book as a marvelous gossip column. But Fallaci claims it is much more; she describes the work in its preface as "a document straddling journalism and history." In fact, her art--and this kind of interviewing is an art--claims the prerogatives of both, yet accepts the responsibilities of neither. As a result, her methodology and the material she gathers raises a lot of questions...
...Women, Money and Power, Phyllis Chesler and Emily Goodman deplore the reluctance of the business world to admit women. Anyone who's glanced at its full-page business promotions in The New York Times, knows that Cosmopolitan, say, provides some of advertising's most lucrative exposure. Women are constantly manipulated by business firms, yet they rarely have a say, as executives, in how this is done: the tradition of the nurturant and emotionally unstable female gets in the way of such careers...
...Hans, a 65-year-old leftist who was born in Austria and came to Chile in the 1930s fleeing Hitler. He and his buddies, other desperate, old and some not-so-old radicals, hand around the park which lines the Mapocho River. Hans used to put his cosmopolitan background to use in the hotel business--he speaks three languages--but the tourists are afraid of Chile these days; the hotels are empty and Hans has been out of work for over a year...
...miles from Riyadh? The competition was weak, for one thing. Cairo does not have enough suitable offices, homes and hotel rooms to accommodate a big foreign business community, and its communications system barely operates. Jordan's capital, Amman, has better facilities but lacks the essential cosmopolitan ambience...
...visiting scholar at the Yenching Institute from Hong Kong, Louise Ho, said to me that she--born of a mainland Chinese capitalist father and a Hong Kong mother--felt good on the one hand because she was travelled and cosmopolitan; and bad on the other because "I'll never really have a home--I'll always be most of all an observer." She was brought up with the idea, she says, that her family, displaced by the 1949 revolution, would eventually go back to Canton...