Word: cosmopolitans
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Cambridge is a beautiful city--small enough to engender a smalltown atmosphere, and yet cosmopolitan enough to be rightly labeled the `Athens of America.' Cambridge has two mammoth universities, a number of small colleges and a thoroughly heterogenous population. The universities openly engage in classified research for the United States Government. It is logical to speculate that such research might just include the study of socio-psychological stress factors within a controlled environment. If one cares to spend most of a fortnight researching Harvard and M.I.T. real estate acquisitions within the City of Cambridge from the end of World...
...mistakes Country Music has made about its audience so far has been to print 5,000 posters of Hee Haw Star (and Country Music humor columnist) Archie Campbell. He is sprawled in the pose made famous by Burt Reynolds in Cosmopolitan and clad in red-and-white-striped long underwear. Of the 5,000 posters printed, Country Music has sold just 37. "We discovered," says McCabe, "that our readers wallpaper their walls. Unlike rock fans, they don't put up posters...
Shanghai was once the wildest city in the world, celebrated for the ubiquity and variety of its vices, from the gambling halls and opium dens of Nanshih, the old town, to the cosmopolitan attractions of the waterfront whores of Yangtzepoo Road. This was the town where sailors got shanghaied. Today, Shanghai is officially the biggest city on earth (pop. 10,820,000), but it is all rather different. TIME Correspondent Roy Rowan visited the metropolis and cabled this report...
Because jazz has become steadily more cosmopolitan during the last 40 years, migrating north to Chicago and later New York and finally exploding world-wide on records. The jazz anyone plays today depends so much on what happened in those years--on the rise of overpowering soloists like Louis Armstrong, the big-city, big-band style of Duke Ellington, the bebop innovations of Charlie Parker, even the European heritage brought in more and more by the Modern Jazz Quartet--that, while young musicians can strive toward a self-consciously primitive jazz style, they cannot duplicate the attitude and style...
Image descriptions concentrate primarily on "jock influence" and musical tastes. Eliot rated "quasi-jock," Winthrop "arm-chair jock", while Adams scored "non-jock, honors majors, with more cosmopolitan interests...