Word: cosmopolitanism
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...before the coup were forced to emigrate. Key sectors of the economy were captured by foreign, mainly U.S. monopolies (American investment accounts for more than 50 per cent of foreign investment in Greece). Domestic enterprises were either wiped out or absorbed by foreign competitors with the cooperation of Greek cosmopolitan capital (Onassis, Niarchos). A mounting trade deficit (in 1971, $1.4 billion with a GNP of $9 billion) has forced the junta to resort to heavy short-term borrowing, thus increasing the dependence of the Greek economy on Western banking giants. Despite the heavy foreign investment, unemployment persists. Every year over...
...seems only yesterday that Helen Gurley Brown told Cosmopolitan readers: "You've got to make yourself more cupcakeable all the time so that you're a better cupcake to be gobbled up." Meanwhile Hugh Hefner was giving Playboy readers lessons on how to lick off the frosting without actually paying for that cake. Like silent partners, Brown and Hefner-Miss Cupcake and Mr. Sweet Tooth-shared the profits of the sexual revolution* while remaining happily oblivious to the militant feminism that arrived in its wake...
What has happened to Cosmopolitan since Women Liberationists let Mrs. Brown know that a cupcake must learn to bite back? What has happened to Playboy since Gloria Steinem told Hefner, "A woman reading Playboy feels a little like a Jew reading a Nazi manual...
...torn from the Nationalists by Mao Tse-tung's Communists in 1949, and racked by some of the bloodiest clashes between Red Guard fanatics and factory workers that occurred anywhere in China during the peak of the Cultural Revolution in 1967. Today it is slower, far less cosmopolitan, and a bit more relaxed and friendly than dour Peking or supercharged Shanghai. The Communist regime has turned the city into an industrial hub, but the factories are mercifully screened from view by groves of trees. TIME Correspondent Jerrold Schecter, who was permitted by Peking to stay behind in China after...
...says that he was "the smoothest liar I ever met. Whether what he told you was the straight truth or an out-and-out lie, he always projected total sincerity. And yet he was impossible to dislike." Chou's recent visitors have invariably found him immensely civilized, reasonably cosmopolitan and statesmanlike. Henry Kissinger, an unabashed admirer, says that "he is not a petty man. He has large views." To France's peerless man of all letters, Andre Malraux, the Chinese Premier is "neither truculent nor jovial: faultlessly urbane and as reticent...