Word: cosmopolitanization
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...Donoso, 53, demonstrated these qualities in such novels as This Sunday and The Obscene Bird of Night (1973). He remains confidently cosmopolitan in his themes and techniques. Chilean by birth, the author was educated at Princeton, spent time as a writer in residence at the University of Iowa and currently lives on the outskirts of Barcelona, the setting for three eerie and witty novellas linked in Sacred Families...
...Ghorbal, 51, a physical Lilliputian at only inches over five feet but a man of imposing intelligence, wit and charm. One of Washington's most respected diplomats, he is a totally cosmopolitan figure; previous posts include Paris, London, Geneva and Ottawa. He holds both a master's and doctorate from Harvard...
Soon Chiang Ch'ing joined thousands of China's new-left generation of writers and dramatists who were drawn to cosmopolitan Shanghai. In the 1930s leftists lived in constant fear of the so-called White Terror imposed by the Nationalist secret police...
...several ways, new views in psychology have followed the previous leadership of Anthropology, a discipline which profited from cross-cultural scope, and therefore more cosmopolitan perspectives. The American Anthropological Association has issued a statement describing homosexual and bisexual variations as common across many cultures, and well within human adaptations which are quite normal. Distinguished anthropologists who have persuasively articulated this position include Ashley Montagu and Margaret Mead, who has stated that she considers fear and condemnation of sexual variation to be a destructive malad-justment...
...businessman whose only goal in life has been to make a million bucks fast. The established press is anxiously trying to disown a man who is by no means a stranger to the system; Larry Flynt and his magazine are the logical extensions of that system. Magazines like People, Cosmopolitan and New York probably have more in common with Hustler than they do with the New Republic; most journals sold in this country pander to less-than-noble interests. Larry Flynt is the illegitimate offspring of a Helen Gurley Brown and a Rupert Murdoch. Hustler makes money. Hustler makes sense...