Word: cosmopolitanism
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...Saturday there will be concerts by Dave Mason and 10CC, though unfortunately they will be in separate locations. Former Traffic member Mason, living comfortably due to the success of his latest album Split Coconut, will be at the Music Hall along with his band. For those who prefer the cosmopolitan rock of 10CC, they, along with their "Parisian Revue," will be at the Orpheum. As a special attraction, the group Streetwalker will be making its debut. Former Family members Roger Chapman and Charlie Whitney compose this group's core and if that's any indication of the band's quality...
Sadat's supersalesman first learned the art of getting along in Alexandria, where he grew up during the Lawrence Durrell era of cosmopolitan concord among the city's Arabs, Jews and Europeans. As a graduate student at Harvard in the 1950s, he debated with a number of young Jews who are now helping run Israel. "They were simply human beings with whom I happened to disagree," he says. Bashir has not always got along with everybody, however. He temporarily lost his government scholarship to Harvard for criticizing the nascent Nasser government, and he was fired from a foreign...
...Women take pills and ingest things. Men use guns and more violent means," Scarf says. "I'm interested in the active versus the passive aspects." She wrote articles on all these aspects of suicide and they eventually led her to articles on depression. "I started on easy things for Cosmopolitan magazine. I was intrigued by the numbers--there are many, many more depressed women than men. The numbers are four to one or four to two, depending upon the area of the country. What happens to women that is different from what happens to me?" She pauses, then questions some...
...Francisco's Nob Hill; it was Feb. 20-Patty's 21st birthday. On Sept. 1, Randolph Hearst stepped down as editor and publisher of the Examiner; he remains the paper's president and chairman of the Hearst Corp., which controls eight newspapers as well as Cosmopolitan, Popular Mechanics, Good Housekeeping and many other publishing properties...
...warfare between mostly Moslem leftists and largely Christian rightists, no one seems to have a lasting solution to the bloodletting that has taken more than 2,000 lives so far and is steadily tearing apart what was always thought to be the Middle East's most tolerant and cosmopolitan country. Karami last week made a new attempt to pull his nation of 3 million people back together again by proposing a "Committee of National Reconciliation" comprising representatives of Lebanon's various religious and political groups. Syria, which is anxious to maintain a stable Lebanon as a buffer along...