Word: cosmopolitanization
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...mother's high school friends; another has a restless middle-age woman mothered by her house-loving daughter. Sadder even than the abundance of casual pregnancies is the absence of parental models. Too old for her age, and too young, one high school girl reads Ingenue, Cosmopolitan, Mademoiselle and the Bible alone at night in her room. Why the last? "Because I'm nervous, and it helps me sleep. All the trees and fruit, the figs, begat and begat going down like the multiplication tables...
...company has been more surefooted with its 13 magazines, which include Cosmopolitan, sassy bible of the single woman, and Good Housekeeping. Under the guidance of John Mack Carter, 59, GH's longtime editor, the firm has created a pair of winners, Country Living and Colonial Homes, and has just launched Victoria, a glossy, evocation of the Victorian era complete with recipes for potpourris. Though the magazines contribute an estimated 65% of the company's net profits, some face increasingly aggressive rivals. Hearst's Harper's Bazaar, the tony fashion journal that has run second to Conde Nast's Vogue...
Isaac Bashevis Singer tells the story of an aged and poor Jewish shoemaker who arrives in America to join his now affluent sons. Despite his sons` generosity and care, the old man is bewildered by the strangeness of their world. He cannot connect the cosmopolitan Americans he sees before him with the young boys he once trained to make shoes by hand in their cottage home...
Even so, the charges may have already shattered the careers of the two cosmopolitan go-getters. Merrill Lynch promptly fired Vaskevitch, citing his failure to give the company an explanation of the SEC's charges. The son of a wealthy Israeli tobacco trader, Vaskevitch had already risen to head a merger operation for a British investment house by age 30, when he joined Merrill Lynch in 1981. He quickly became Merrill's top international mergermaker and lived accordingly in a $2.4 million London home filled with antique furniture...
Kansas City boosters countered the cosmopolitan claims of the competition by stressing the advantages of the more tranquil Midwest. Over cocktails at a Mission Hills mansion, Mark Russell, a Kansas City developer, genially assured Democrats, "We don't have race riots here, we don't have crazies, and all our cabdrivers speak English...