Word: cosmopolitanism
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...between her own culture and those that prevail at Harvard. Many of the differences are superficial--the kinds of food they like, the side of the street for driving. But most of the foreign students who come here are prepared for this kind of culture gap; they are generally cosmopolitan and are ready to deal with different life-styles...
Most Easterners picture Mormons as eccentrics. And cosmopolitan Harvard is no exception; ask students here what they know about Mormons, and You're likely to get a wry smile and some lighthearted kidding about cigarettes and liquor and low divorce rates...
...Eric Segal jealousy phenomenon involved. The consensus at Yale was that Segal would have received tenure had he not been a little too successful with Love Story. Kearns has dined with presidents and is friendly with the elite of the journalist, literary, political and academic society. Maybe this cosmopolitan aspect of her life has made her seem somehow less devoted to the rigors and seriousness of academic existence...
Died. Maurice Edelman, 64, cosmopolitan British author and Labor M.P. who represented Coventry for over a quarter-century, while writing a succession of well-received political novels and plays (A Call on Kuprin, The Prime Minister's Daughter...
...most cosmopolitan display of military hardware ever seen in Africa. Up Kinshasa's Boulevard of June 30 last week marched phalanxes of white-gloved, Belgian-trained units proudly bearing Belgian FN rifles. Next an elite division, trained by North Koreans and sporting Pyongyang-made AK-47 automatic rifles, goose-stepped up the avenue. Then came a parade of American amphibious vehicles, Japanese jeeps, French Panhard armored cars. At the end, to great cheers, 30 Chinese T-62 tanks rumbled by, scarring the broad boulevard, whose floral center strip had been paved over...