Word: cosmopolitans
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Tears & Steaks. Shanghai is still China's biggest and most cosmopolitan city. But it has been isolated for years. Shanghai's frantic trading is all smalltime stuff-as though New York's retail stores were going like mad with no wholesaling, manufacturing or shipping. The national government probably will regard Shanghai as its wicked Wall Street and keep a firm hand on the city...
...most cosmopolitan and busiest Roman Catholic church in the U.S. is Manhattan's Church of St. Francis of Assisi. Unlike big, stylish St. Patrick Cathedral, St. Francis is small and sandwiched off among office buildings in a crowded section near Pennsylvania Station...
...control commission, we i) show the Russians (against whom, after all, this secrecy is being directed) that we are ready to trust them, i) give a strong impetus for success of the United Nations Organization, 3) furnish a strong moral persuader to other nations to follow our example in cosmopolitan behavior, and 4) lose nothing which we won't lose shortly in any event, if we haven't already done...
Superfluous People. Prokofiev was a mature composer with a cosmopolitan background and a fully developed style when he returned. In the mid-'30s, Russia did not shoot but it did ostracize composers whose music did not keep time to the Marxian metronome. Prokofiev's first Soviet piece, Symphonic Song, was scorned by Russian critics for its "morbid resignation" and its "tendencies of urbanized lyricism." Wrote Soviet critic A. Ostretsov: "We do not dispute Prokofiev's right to reflect the emotional world of 'superfluous' people in the West, with their rottenness and putrefaction...
...answer. Often the bill for clearing up a single TK will run over $100, and it once cost us $300 just to make sure that the highest price ever paid for a magazine article up to then was $30,000 (to Calvin Coolidge, for a 1929 article in Cosmopolitan...