Word: cosmopolitans
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...though the governor had made him quite comfortable, Voltaire had insisted that he must not be arrested again without plenty of notice. The court of Prussia's Frederick the Great was open to Voltaire as a refuge. But it consisted, says Author Mitford tartly, "of middle-class intellectuals, cosmopolitan Sodomites and Prussian soldiers"; moreover, jealous Emilie detested Frederick for trying to lure her lover to the Prussian court. Frederick's efforts to do so make some of the funniest sections of the book. Luckily for Emilie. monarch and mocker could not always hit it off-though Voltaire...
...some twenty-six years ago, he came to America in 1949 to study. He wasted a year in pre-med studies at Dartmouth, but graduated with a B.A. in 1955. He claims to have worked on The Dartmouth Quarterly, The Dart, and to have been president of the Dartmouth Cosmopolitan Club, where, he asserts, he "encouraged the exchange of ideas and knowledge among the races." His class poem was censored by college officials, towards many of whom he holds an undying hatred...
...LEGACY, by Sibille Bedford. A cool, backward look at Victorian and Edwardian Europe, a time when the big rich were truly idle and upperclass life was dedicated to an endless battle with boredom. Middle-aged First-Novelist Bedford turns the cosmopolitan novel, a rare enough product nowadays, into an immensely entertaining remembrance-and indictment-of things past...
Marxism appeals to some Moslem intellectuals, Zenkovsky declared, not because they believe in it, but because it offers them a force and dynamism to take revenge on the West for centuries of humiliations. Despite its atheism, Marxism's cosmopolitan outlook and social element make it in many respects similar in structure to the philosophy of Islam, Zenkovsky said...
...abolished in 1833, large numbers of indentured laborers were brought from India until this practice ceased about 1910. About a tenth of the total population are East Indians. They form at least half of the population of Trinidad, whose capital, Port of Spain, is one of the most cosmopolitan cities in the world. There are also about 18,000 Chinese and a smaller number of Syrians...