Word: cosmopolitanism
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Under its sleek veneer of progress-the tall new buildings, the bustling St. Johns River traffic, the tony seaside country clubs-Jacksonville is more akin in spirit to nearby cracker towns in south Georgia than to cosmopolitan southern Florida, and seems to have reverted to type. Its newest school was named after Civil War General Nathan Bedford Forrest, and even the kids knew that "Fustest with the mostest" Forrest was one of the founders of the Ku Klux Klan. Mayor Haydon Burns is a 48-year-old segregationist with his eye on the Governor's chair and a shuddering...
...members are practicing Catholics. From all over the world the congress drew 13,000 delegates (previous record abroad: London's 8,000 in 1955) ; the delegations ranged in size from one person (Israel, Jordan and Hungary) to 2,836 from the U.S. Rio had never seen such a cosmopolitan crowd; bare-shouldered Ghanaians and batik-clad Indonesians drew stares, while the eight delegates from the Soviet Union drew something more-a predictable blast from the Rev. Carl Mclntire. head of the Fundamentalist American Council of Christian Churches, who accused the Baptists of providing a platform for Communist propaganda. Retorted...
...feels this more keenly than Massachusetts' able President Jean Paul Mather, who will quit this spring in protest against low faculty pay (TIME, Aug. 31). Last week Mather's 5,200 students offered another kind of protest to the penny-pinching state legislature. To import sorely needed "cosmopolitan contacts," Senior Winthrop F. Sheerin, 25, of West Stockbridge, Mass., proposed that a "distinguished visitors' " chair be endowed by the students themselves. Instantly approved, an annual $3 head tax will raise an estimated $17,500, hopefully attract all sorts of illustrious lecturers, from Poet T. S. Eliot to Physicist...
...hindsight, it was a quaint, old-fashioned war, and Author Post puts it distinctively and persuasively into print in this graceful memoir. Post, who died in 1956 at the age of 83, was a writer-illustrator (Harper's, Cosmopolitan) with a lifelong appetite for adventure. He ran mule trains over the Andes, witnessed insurrections in Cuba and Venezuela, and honeymooned in the Mexican jungles. But nostalgia's finest hour remained for him the charge up San Juan Hill...
...only failed once. It was at the Cosmopolitan Club dance. Actually, he hadn't tried too hard; most of the evening had been spent at a funeral home asking the manager if he could see some of the more attractive specimens. When he finally got to the dance (a trifle sobered) there was no entrance. He tried to tell the matron that his daughter had to be home at 12 and he wanted to go in and get her. She didn't fall for it, so he walked down the block yelling "nunc cosmopolitan solum stat...