Word: cosmopolitans
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...nomadic Turks swept in from the open steppes in the 11th century and settled themselves in Asia Minor on the ruins of half a dozen cosmopolitan civilizations. Here, before the Turkish conquerors descended, the Hittites (2000 B.C.) first mined, smelted and fashioned iron ore into weapons; the kingdom of Lydia (whose most famous ruler was a man named Croesus) first coined money, and Greeks fought Trojans over Helen of Troy (though prosaic modern historians insist that they really fought for control of the Dardanelles). Near one city alone-Izmir, the ancient Smyrna-are mosaics from the cave where sightless Homer...
...bespatted aristocrats, the bored billionaires, the Tyrolean songsters with hooked pipes, the tiny donkeys and the hairy mongrels-all these Bemelmans perennials once floated in a dream ballroom and filled the air with a fragrance of old brandy, Russian leather and pine needles. For what Bemelmans calls the cosmopolitan "sleeping-pill set," he created a magical ideal and a high standard of make-believe...
...which was always whimsically weak, is now rolling toward astigmatism. "It never occurred to me," he groans of Lady Elsie Mendl, ". . . that she, poor darling, was relatively destitute. She left a million . . . but it's peanuts, considering her fashion of living, her travels . . . artisans . . . servants . . . hospitality." Too many cosmopolitan sleeping pills, perhaps; but Bemelmania, while still fun, is not nearly as wonderfully crazy as it used...
...experience and finesse, the budding LaSalles are no match for such famed international quartets as the Budapest, Griller or Paganini. But where these majestic ensembles tour the cosmopolitan concert circuits, quartets like the LaSalle are digging themselves in as hinterland institutions. The LaSalle finds that it has literally built a new audience. Moreover, by going out of its way to play for young listeners, it is building up chamber-music interest for the time when the youngsters will be buying their own concert tickets...
Almost an answer to every architect's dream, Widener Reference Room is multi-purpose. Quite cosmopolitan, it caters to all types of clientele without sacrificing its dignity...