Word: cosmopolitans
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...years from 1902 to 1912. Ironically enough, the movement was launched by McClure's not with any high impulse toward reform but as a coldly calculated device to boost circulation. Soon the new journalism of exposure was taken up by a score of magazines- Munsey's, Cosmopolitan, Collier's, Everybody's, Hampton's, the Independent, the American Magazine. They all followed the same formula, and they ranged far for new public enemies, setting their sights on everything from New York's Trinity Church to Georgia's prison system...
...writers in America today, Edmund Wilson is probably the most versatile and certainly the most cosmopolitan. When Doctor Zhivago appears, he points out where the translators betrayed the Russian original. When the Dead Sea Scrolls are published, he learns Hebrew, the better to assess their value. Wilson is a man of letters at home, it would seem, in all civilizations, and the U.S.'s only critic committed to nothing but his good taste...
...Soviet Russia, "cosmopolitan" is a dirty word, and it is once again increasingly applied to the Soviet Union's 3,000,000 Jews...
Because of the cosmopolitan quality of The City, one can find many unusual and often very good foreign restaurants. The Baghdad (23rd Street off Fifth) serves excellent Syrian food (especially shiskebeb) at reasonable prices. For Central European cooking and continental atmosphere, the Viennese Lantern (72nd between Second and Third Ave.) may be recommended. Pic n' Pac (on Lexington between 57th and 58th) is not, as the name suggests, a take-out chicken place, but a French restaurant with a very fine Belgian chef and about the only spot in New York where one can order cous cous...
...retaliation for this "insult" to the Soviet people, Evtushenko was berated as a "pygmy cosmopolitan." Last month, more than 5,000 young Muscovites showed their feeling by packing around the statue of Poet Vladimir Mayakovsky. chanting: "We want Evtushenko." Their hero mounted to an improvised platform and read a poem, You Can Call Me a Communist, but which pointedly declares: "I will remain firm to the end and never become an unctuous bootlicker...