Word: cosmopolitanization
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...presidential candidate, from a literary critic to a novelist and later a professor, from the husband of his aunt to the husband of his cousin. A sometime resident of Bolivia, Peru, Spain, France, and the United States, Vargas Llosa’s life has been, in many ways, as cosmopolitan and as diverse as the Bad Girl’s is. Indeed, it is the book’s cosmopolitanism that fills out the rather bare plotline and gives it a modern, worldly shape. Each episode between the good boy and the bad girl is unique only because...
...prep look, I offer you... THREE TIPS: 1) Pair the blazer with something a little but more punky, like skinny jeans. You don’t want to look completely like an admissions catalog. 2) Try to wear a scarf with your blazer. The silhouette should be European and cosmopolitan, not country club. 3) Perhaps this jacket will replace that awful quilted Burberry jacket with the plaid collar that you have sitting in your closet. I sure hope so. —Staff writer Rebecca M. Harrington can be reached at harring@fas.harvard.edu...
During the Gilded Age this began to change. Americans increasingly traveled to Europe, where they quickly noticed the longstanding practice of tipping. Hoping to appear cosmopolitan, wealthy travelers brought back the custom. The fad quickly took hold. In the 1910s, more than 10 percent of the labor force accepted tips for their services...
...alternative to [civil society] is some model of cosmopolitan democracy,” Livesey writes in an e-mail. “The dominant version of this is a Rawlsian rights-based model of representative democracy, but I am working on a republican model organized around a more substantive version of citizenship...
Still, in cosmopolitan Cairo and Beirut, most hotels and some trendy restaurants take advantage of tradition and capitalize on the late Ramadan hours, putting up large tents where friends meet for the late Sohour meal, mint tea, games of cards, backgammon, music and of course the Shisha. Business people have taken advantage of these traditional gatherings to make contact with clients and government officials...