Word: cosmopolitans
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Angered and disillusioned, Daylie approached the Cosmopolitan Chamber of Commerce, a local group chiefly made up of black businessmen, and asked them to take a public position against the gangs. Soon after, he began receiving threats on his life. Since then, he has been using his daily radio show and once-a-week TV program, For Blacks Only, to ask blacks to stand up and be counted. "The silent black majority has become the victim of a violent minority," he says. "Once we are honest enough to admit there is a serious gang problem...
Outside the university they are found in the self-styled New Left, composed of young, cosmopolitan, and moderately angry intellectual-and artist-types (who also seem to be the only Israelis who use drugs...
...heavy Jewish population last fall by throwing a royal welcome for Israeli Prime Minister Golda Meir, does not plan an official welcome for Pompidou, and will be conveniently out of town when he arrives -an extraordinary display of politics in place of politesse for the mayor of a supposedly cosmopolitan city. The French President will probably be greeted in New York by hostile crowds who support Israel...
...attributes Boorstin gives the standard of living community-"pervasive, re?iprocal, communal, cosmopolitan, universalizing, conspicuous" - form definite patterns of association, a non-political "way of life." The Harris and Gallup polls seem to create order from the vagueness through statistics. Then suddenly, in the last decade, the numbers no longer reflect opinion, but create it. Facts, Boorstin warns, are becoming norms...
MANY of these ruminations on the younger generation make sense only from the myopic perspective of an Ivy League existence. Mark Gerzon attends Harvard. Here students take only liberal arts. Most of them come from liberal cosmopolitan, highly affluent backgrounds. Though small in number, they have enough spending money to finance a major "youth culture ara." The high proportion of boarders also sets Harvard apart: one lives in virtual isolation from the adult world-and the outside world...