Word: cosmopolitans
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...Hearst editor and partner-in-real-estate with his chief], and he pointed to a big piece of land and said, 'Marion, you should buy that; it will bring you $500,000 a year.' " The advice prompted Marion to start buying real estate, with funds from her Cosmopolitan Productions, the company that Hearst had set up to make her films...
...gained entrance to Hasty Pudding because the club needed someone to write its show's lyrics, he could not win admission to the more exclusive clubs or to the Crimson, then dominated then by arch-aristocrats who disapproved of Reed. His most political act was to join the Cosmopolitan Club, a semi-official effort to debate the day's international issues...
Masters, under the present system, will be able to fill their tentative lists by drawing from their first choice applicants, and by bartering with other Masters for second and third choice applicants. All the Masters will meet subsequently and attempt to eliminate any cosmopolitan deficiencies in their respective Houses by shifting students...
Although its library and its cosmopolitan tradition helped bring Bologna Europe's first U.S. graduate school, the project's prime mover has been its director, slight, affable C. (for Charles) Grove Haines, 48, onetime professor of diplomatic history at Johns Hopkins' School of Advanced International Studies in Washington. While serving as a temporary State Department attaché in postwar Italy, Historian Haines had an idea: the young experts the U.S. and its allies need to conduct European affairs could best be trained on location. After winning over his Johns Hopkins superiors, Haines went back to Bologna with...
Tamayo, a Zapotec Indian, likes to repeat: "My feeling is Mexican, my color is Mexican, my shapes are Mexican." Then he adds, "But my thinking is a mixture." His thoughts about art are cosmopolitan and drawn more from the school of Paris than from the militantly proletarian school of his countrymen Rivera and Siqueiros. At 54 Tamayo has come a long way from the Mexico City fruit markets where he grew up, has become one of the Western Hemisphere's most sought-after painters. Contrasted with Chardin's chill but solid mastery, Tamayo's Fruit Vendors looks...