Word: cosmopolitanism
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...place like Quincy House is an enjoyable break from the more cosmopolitan scene outside," she said. "We need less brick and more green...
...side got overexposed in more routine movies and TV shows than he cares to remember. His face, at least, was memorable-a rubber stamp for Marlon Brando's. But his name did not become a household word until last spring, when he posed in the hirsute buff for Cosmopolitan magazine. Now, unliberated housewives shamelessly tape Burt Reynolds' sinewy centerfold to their refrigerators the way their hubbies paper tool sheds with "Playmate" pullouts...
With Dinah and Deliverance, Reynolds hardly needs any more boosts. But his Cosmopolitan caper has given him a taste for prankish self-promotion. This fall he will appear on the cover of Esquire-in the raw again, but cropped above the waist. Burt will be looking down at himself, his mouth agape with disbelief. A headline asks: THE IMPOTENCE BOOM...
...what impressed Peck most about the Berrigans were their patriotism--their roots in the Midwest American heartland--and their discipline. Peck knew about neither Phil Berrigan's peace movement past, his hardheaded political analyses and "Just War" philosophy (no pacifist he), nor Dan's more cosmopolitan and poetic development. Sufficient for Peck were the facts that the Catonsville people spoke from their firsthand experiences in Latin American hills and Paris slums; that they then tried to change the government through normal channels; and that their action was non-violent, based on moral guidelines and designed to awaken religious resonances...
...Okay," he said, and he became confidential and friendly. The heavy Dorchester accent gave way to something more cosmopolitan...