Word: cosmopolitanization
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Maybe it's too corny for the cosmopolitan frame of mind, or the confirmed cynic who demands perfection from himself, but Nickel Mountain leaves you feeling that there is an order to life. At the end of the book an old couple watch their son's coffin winched out of a grave. The woman shouts "I believe in the resurrection of Jesus Christ." The man yells, "Shut up." In the solemn eyes of Henry Soames, where everything has some value, and you "don't shoot at everything that moves on the theory it might be a rattler," even this scene...
...sought to build a "light to the nations," an Israel that would be a model of social justice and democracy. From the earliest years of his Zionist agitation Ben-Gurion pleaded for agreement between Jews and Arabs, provoking right-wing attacks that called him a doctrinaire socialist and deracinated cosmopolitan. In the last years of his retirement in Sde Boker, a kibbutz collectively engaged in making the Israeli desert bloom, Ben-Gurion still tried to see both sides of every question. If he'd been a young Arab, he remarked privately, he might have joined the fedayeen...
...VIRGINIA, there really is a Helen Gurley Brown, and her Cosmopolitan girl thrives wildly these days at Agassiz Theater. Radcliffe-Grant-in-Aid plays the part of the protective mother who can't hold back her ambitious child in its current production of the Burt Bacharach-Hal David-Neil Simon office party, Promises, Promises...
Guccione made his reputation with Penthouse, his raunchy, lighthearted superskin magazine for men (TIME, July 30). Viva was supposed to be a bright and sophisticated monthly for women who find Cosmopolitan too coy. It is a logical goal, but the problems begin with the publisher himself. To place the magazine in a cosmic context, Guccione makes the dubious prophecy that "a new epoch of madness and excess awaits us." He protests against the Supreme Court's pornography decision saying the court "sodomizes the Constitution...
...most ballyhooed new entry is Guccione's Viva, which is scheduled for an initial press run of 1,000,000 in September. Trade reports have it that Guccione plans to take on Cosmopolitan in the same way that Penthouse challenged Playboy. Guccione says merely that Viva will be "a sex-oriented magazine as Penthouse...