Word: cosmopolitanization
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...taste. He succeeds, with considerable wit and a fine malice, but it is hard to take him seriously. Having revealed the stratagems and pretensions of everyone able and willing to read his book, Fussell emerges as an upscale bohemian. His ideal social category is the "X" class, a cosmopolitan elite who speak several languages, drink excellent cheap wine, never have to be at work on time and whistle Beethoven quartets...
...Angeles has benefited enormously from the new influx of Asian Pacific people. The city is fast becoming the greatest cosmopolitan metropolis of the world: a gateway for trade and peoples from all over the Pacific. This commerce and immigration will eventually eclipse the magnitude of the movement that crossed the Atlantic earlier in this century. Los Angeles is not so much an uneasy new melting pot, as TIME calls it, as a modern miracle in which the joining of East and West has revitalized the city...
Because the clubs are such an integral part of many students' social lives. Princeton still echoes with vestiges of the cosmopolitan lifestyle of F Scott Fitzgerald and the flapper generation. But those images emanate from the design of Princeton itself. The sturdy elms which line and shade the streets and the row of terraced clubs down Prospect Avenue realfirm the traditional images of Old Nassau However, students say Fitzgerald's carefree mixture of youth and affluence appears rarely in their experiences as Princeton undergraduates, in part because they simply do not have the time. "We work awfully hard," said senior...
...released from fear by a marvelous vision of sacramental lust in a high and cosmopolitan civilization, the sweet dream of a timeless humanity, the lovers became one person again, woman inside turned outside of man. And Sarah rode the motions of her own and Michael's unconsciousness, quiet, submissive, faintly delirious, endlessly, endlessly, endlessly until the fire caught--the Volcano erupted--The Boundaries Dissolved--The Heat Flowed O*U*T!! and she screamed. And she rode the crest of the lava in tumultuous, selfless joy down the side of the mountain until slowly, slowly, she came to an easy gradual...
...feel, during an attack, the infusion of adrena line into the bloodstream, the craving of the muscles for violent action." For most of this century, Arthur Koestler lived by those words. Last week at his home in London, he died by them at the age of 77. The "rootless cosmopolitan," as he styled himself, had been an ardent supporter of "autoeuthanasia," and when the suffering of old age and disease grew in supportable, he reportedly took a lethal dose of drugs. His third wife, Cynthia, 56, joined him in the apparent double suicide. Koestler's act was in keeping...