Word: cosmopolitanization
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...offers readers only a "heterogeneous hodgepodge of triviality." After making that harsh generalization in an ambitious new book that assesses the press on a global scale, John C. Merrill, a professor of journalism at the University of Missouri, nonetheless contends that the number of "serious, intellectually oriented journals with cosmopolitan outlooks" is growing steadily. They constitute what he calls "the elite press," and that is the title of his book (Pitman; $7.95). Merrill not only ticks off the top newspapers by name, but also ranks 100 of them in descending degrees to form the "Merrill Elite Press Pyramid...
ALONE among the Arab states sharing borders with Israel, tiny cosmopolitan Lebanon had escaped direct involvement in the Middle East's frequent outbursts of hostility. Like Arabs everywhere else, the Lebanese of course paid lip service and tithes to the Arab cause against Israel, but they were far more interested in commerce than in aggressive politics. The Beirut government dutifully declared war against Israel during last year's Six-Day War-and sent two fighters on a sortie southward toward Tel Aviv. When one was shot down, Lebanon happily withdrew from the campaign, its duty done...
Lagos is a cosmopolitan city, and like any growing capital, the new and old exist side by side. In one of the open-air markets you bargain; in one of the big department stores you pay a flat rate for a sundae or a sweater. Just a few miles outside the city, the University of Lagos is literally rising out of jungle forest...
...California's Westlake College of Music, he launched his career by working as a studio singer on Canadian and British television. "Musically, I'm the product of a sophisticated background," he once said, "yet my songs are basic and simple. I hope to be known as a cosmopolitan hick...
...children could not be locked out again. What began as a labor dispute grew from day to day into a more fundamental quarrel of the teachers' union, politics, race and culture, tearing at the five boroughs of what had always been regarded as the most liberal, tolerant and cosmopolitan city in America. "If it were just a labor dispute," said an aide to the Mayor, "that would be one thing. But there's far more at stake. New York could be the greatest tinderbox in the world...