Word: cosmopolitans
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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Regina Engstrand (Donna Manley) holds the same position--housekeeper for Mrs. Alving--that her own mother did before her death. The education and refinement she has culled from living in this cosmopolitan home conflicts with the behavior of her offensive step-father, Jacob (Harry Cooper). He frequently reminds his daughter about the duty a child owes a father, although this is some what muffled beneath his deliberately garbled gruffness...
...riposte to those who write off the downtown or who cling to the image of Fresno as an agrarian market town. Despite her claim about the place's Midwestern qualities, she sides with those who believe the city can meet its challenges only if it thinks in terms as cosmopolitan as its new population. The city hall is the very model of a computerized managerial center. Its council chamber has a Big Brother-like screen on which blueprints and other exhibits can be projected. The building is meant to say that Fresno, off in its corner, is becoming a crossroads...
What's a girl to do when she encounters sexual harassment in the office? If she's a Cosmo girl, she apparently should think twice before becoming offended. Helen Gurley Brown, the longtime editor in chief of Cosmopolitan magazine and tireless doyenne of social advice, believes there's still a place for "sexual chemistry" in the workplace...
Actually, that should be Sankt-Peterburg, which is the Dutch name Peter the Great gave the city when he founded it in 1703 on a swamp on the shore of the Gulf of Finland. Choosing a European version of his patron saint's name to underscore his cosmopolitan ambitions, Peter built the elegant port as a window to the West, intending to yank his fusty country toward the future. When the Russians went to war against Germany in 1914, the city's Teutonic appellation suddenly became politically incorrect. Emperor Nicholas II's solution was to Russify the name, making...
...flag-hanging act which appeared in Thursday's Boston Globe. It strikes me as a sad commentary on our intellectual capacity at Harvard to elevate the level of our students' particularistic identities (e.g. ethnic, racial, national, religious, regional, gender, etc.) from a primitive and one-dimensional level to the cosmopolitan and humanistically sensitive. Here is how a bright senior at Harvard, Bridget Kerrigan, justifies her vicious...