Word: cosmopolitanization
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...Pacific Rim, L.A. has seen an almost uninterrupted surge in the number of jobs in international trade. The region's technology industry continues to benefit from profitable export licenses. Cheap office space has attracted many foreign businesses that used to think of New York as the only cosmopolitan American city...
Nolde belonged to the radical group, Die Bruke, for a year; and his woodcut portrait, "The Prophet," is one of the most famous examples of their German Expressionism. But the artist did not consider himself cosmopolitan like his contemporaries. This sentiment is emphasized by his deep committment to the land his ancestors had farmed and his native village, from which he took his surname. When Nolde offered a vision of his German homeland, the Nazis not only forbade him to work (with little success), but ridiculed him and other artists in the 1937 exhibit of "Degenerate Art." Their fear...
...concealing his cleverest effects, so that you might have to read a poem two or three times before you detect the rhyme of "dirigible" with "unmarriageable" or "rosy" with "Mafiosi." Dexterity was simply one of the givens of his work-as was his erudition, his homosexuality, his wealth, his cosmopolitan life...
...This is probably the most cosmopolitan bar in the whole city," he says. "You can walk right in and mix right in. It's not a Harvard Square bar, but it's a neighborhood bar with neighborhood prices...
Among the Italians, the best-known candidate is Carlo Maria Martini. As the Archbishop of Milan, Europe's largest archdiocese, Martini, 67, is promoted by moderate Catholics as the single most papabile prince of the Roman Catholic Church. Suave, brilliant, cosmopolitan, he hews closely to John Paul's dogma but is reputed to harbor less conservative inclinations. Some are convinced Martini could spur reform on issues such as celibacy and women priests. On contraception, he once said, "I believe the Church's teaching has not been expressed so well . . . I'm confident we will find some formula to state things...