Word: cosmopolitanization
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...black man's burden; it is also the ground of his being, and therein lies its strength. Nearly every Black African, even the most elegant minister in Savile Row suits, with a Mercedes in his garage, is a member of one of the continent's 6,000 tribes. However cosmopolitan he may be, he still derives his primary identity from his tribe, together with a loyalty toward his fellow tribesmen that is as fierce as is his utter disregard for any outsider. Makonde tribesmen still slit their cheeks to identify themselves to the world, but it is unnecessary surgery...
...Million Cocktail. At the Havana Libre, formerly the Hilton Hotel, the clientele still is cosmopolitan, but the tone has changed. Chunky Russian technicians jostle wispy North Koreans in the elevator. In the lobby, Havana women, necklines plunging down their backs in the style of a decade ago, click across the marble floors to the tune of Heroic Guerrilla played on the p.a. system...
With all the magnificent confusion about who's running for what in the political campaigns these days, the pundits have been wrong more often than right. So no one could blame Cosmopolitan magazine for seeking out a fresh face- and a pretty one at that-to cover politics for its lady readers. Armed with a note pad and a camera Actress Candice Bergen, 22, is heading for the hustings on Bobby Kennedy's campaign trail in the first leg of her new assignment to report on the candidates in the Oregon primary. "I didn't even know...
Avant-Garde, he is convinced, is much more in tune with his sunny nature. Yet the onrushing sexual revolution may have passed him by. For frantic sex Avant-Garde is miles behind Evergreen (TIME, March 29) and not far ahead of Cosmopolitan. But Ginzburg protests that Evergreen's sex is "somewhat excremental," while Avant-Garde is pitched at the "genital level. Sexy, yes. Dirty, no." To prove his point, he says that forthcoming issues will carry an eight-page super-fold-out of a life-sized woman, as well as details on a private collection of pubic hairs garnered...
...amounts to a memoir of his boyhood. His mother has called those writings "valentines" to the friends and family back home in the small (pop. 5,639) Pennsylvania Dutch farm town of Shillington, three miles from Reading, where John was born. His mother, Linda Grace Hoyer Updike, is a cosmopolitan, well-educated writer herself (four stories in The New Yorker since John blazed the way), and she has always loathed everything about Shillington. She admits now to having broken up a high-school romance of John's because the girl was "of Shillington, this place I found so contemptible...