Word: cosmopolitanization
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...Manhattan courtroom. If it sounded like the familiar tale of the innocent girl and the wily seducer, conditions were different enough to make it the juiciest trial in town: the defendant in the $1.25 million malpractice suit is a psychiatrist, Renatus Hartogs, 66, who writes an advice column in Cosmopolitan magazine. The plaintiff, Julie Roy, 36, alleges that she paid for standard psychiatric help but instead got 14 months of "sex therapy" from her analytic guru...
...their parents that Notre Dame has a great football tradition," he says, "but that we don't sacrifice academic standards to produce a winner. If a boy is very interested in studying, I may work the academic angle harder. I also tell them our campus has a cosmopolitan atmosphere, and you can't forget it is a school with a nationwide following." Where appropriate, he mentions Notre Dame's Roman Catholic underpinnings. Boulac, a gentle giant, helps his sell with a sincere, low-key delivery. When he needs help, he turns to distinguished Notre Dame alumni...
With Gris and Picasso, Miró is one of the three great modern artists Spain has produced. Both Picasso and Gris immersed themselves in the cosmopolitan culture of Paris. They became European rather than "Spanish" artists. But, as Miró pointed out in a letter to a friend, he remained "an international Catalan." Miró without Catalonia would no longer...
...Hearst Foundation (which mainly backs medical charities) passed out free food worth about $2.3 million?some $300,000 more than had been planned?to poor people in the San Francisco area. Hearst also talked the directors of the Hearst Corp., which publishes eight newspapers and eleven magazines (including Cosmopolitan, Harper's Bazaar and Good Housekeeping), into putting an additional $4 million into an escrow account in the Wells Fargo Bank. If Patty is released unharmed by May 3, the date when the offer expires, the money is to be spent on more free food and other aid to the needy...
...first exhibition of American folk art-which, roughly speaking, means the work of late 18th and 19th century rural (or at least not cosmopolitan) artists and artisans with little or no formal training-took place in 1924. It was organized by a collector, Juliana Force, at the Whitney Studio Club in New York. This small institution has since become the Whitney Museum. Now, 50 years later, it has mounted an ambitious exhibition, "The Flowering of American Folk Art, 1776-1876," which reflects the growth of interest in a once ignored field. If any show can provide a canon of quality...