Word: cosmopolitanism
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...economic and social transformation, Arkansas owes much to a transplanted Yankee whose surname-connoting vast wealth, liberal Republicanism and cosmopolitan interests-once seemed as alien to the state as fine champagne. Winthrop Rockefeller has not only devoted his time and fortune over the last 13 years to improving the quality of life in Arkansas. He has also succeeded almost singlehanded in renovating its political structure. His electoral victory in November was a historic event: he will become Arkansas' first Republican Governor since...
Provincialism is, of course, an attitude-and attitudes are relative. A man can be provincial in the biggest city or cosmopolitan in the smallest. But provincialism in the old pejorative sense-blindness and insensitivity to all beyond a narrow purview-is practically disappearing before the realities of modern U.S. life. It is hard to be narrow when TV shows yesterday's battles in Viet Nam, when one out of five Americans moves each year, when the small-towner can often afford the same cars for his garage or the same clothes for his wife (Norells or Balenciagas...
...last adherents of a great religion that once enlisted millions of ad herents throughout central Asia,&* the Parsis have traditionally influenced In dia well out of proportion to their numbers. Prosperous, cosmopolitan, literate, they dominate today the business community of Bombay. Industrialist J.R.D. Tata, whose steel mills constitute India's largest privately owned enterprise, is a Parsi; so are General Sam Hormuzji Framji Jamshedji Manekshaw, one of India's top military leaders, and Zubin Mehta, conductor of the Los Angeles Philharmonic Orchestra. Parsi girls for the last three years have won the title of Miss India...
...upsurge seemed to bear out predictions that 1966 will be the magazines' best year ever, and the pattern generally applied across the board. A surprise exception: the Reader's Digest's 11% drop in ad revenues. Such varied magazines as Cosmopolitan, Teen and Motor Trend all announced revenue increases of more than 50%. Hugh (Playboy) Hefner's HMH Publishing did well enough to declare its first cash dividend, 75? per share, though it was a bit like transferring cash from one pocket to the other. Hefner himself owns 80% of the stock, giving him a personal...
...scholars are at the top of their fields, there is little jockeying for prestige and plenty of mutual respect. "This is a sort of paradise," says Literary Historian Marjorie Hope Nicolson, 72, former head of Columbia's English Department. And Philosopher Morton White calls it "a cosmopolitan island in the middle of suburbia, a place of refuge in which every moment is precious...