Word: cosmopolitanization
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...thought it wouldn't happen here.'' groaned a Swiss banker last week. ''But the whole world seems to be caught by a frenzy of speculation. If this goes on. something serious is bound to happen pretty soon." On Zurich's conservative and cosmopolitan Effektenborse. stock prices moved sharply up and down. Alpine fashion, and many an unsavvy investor plunged in with gusto. "For the first time." said another stiff-lipped Zurich banker, "our market is pulling in the barbers, the bakers and the waiters...
Manhattan's select, intellectually kinetic Cosmopolitan Club for Women last week accepted its first Negro member: Contralto Marian Anderson...
Their myopia is especially strong when they envision Harvard as a completely cosmopolitan college. This contention rests upon the dual claims of unreserved acceptance of large numbers of foreign students, and eager susceptibility to international influences ranging from Austin-Healy's to Zen Buddhism. Both these claims are more attractive than true. Foreign students are accepted on the same basis as all others, more often despite than because of their foreign origins and customs. The college community is liberal enough not to be suspicious of outsiders, but it is not particularly interested in them either. The typical foreign student...
...danger of hitching your reputation to scholarship is that once you build a research factory, you cannot readily convert your vast plan to the production of educated alumni. For if scholarship is to be anything, it must be cosmopolitan. The scholar must therefore speak to a national or international audience, not to the local parish. Such an audience naturally focusses his first loyalty in the universal "discipline," rather than on his employer, the local university. Moreover, his prestige with this national audience is primarily determined by what he himself produces, secondarily by what his departmental colleagues produce, and hardly...
...Keith Chesterton, occasionally got the best of Belloc. To this elite, as he called them, Old Gunner Belloc (he had served in the French artillery) felt free to unlimber a bristling battery of high-caliber snarls against his numerous enemies. They included "poisonous cads" (British peers), "blundering savages and cosmopolitan riff raff" (Russian Communists), "filthy greasy hot Armenians," the "German herd [who] do not reason . . . that is why they take refuge in music," "eunuchs," like Thomas Carlyle, or "screaming Eunuchs," like Hitler, and, of course, "damn fool Editors...