Word: cosmopolitans
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...overwhelming period-film beauty? Just a 15-minute tram ride from the city center lies Zizkov, a district for those who fancy an atmosphere better suited to an indie film. Slightly seedy, bohemian and proud, Zizkov is a dynamic neighborhood with a blue-collar past and a middle-class, cosmopolitan future...
...overwhelming period-film beauty? Just a 15-minute tram ride from the city center lies Zizkov, a district for those who fancy an atmosphere better suited to an indie film. Slightly seedy, bohemian and proud, Zizkov is a dynamic neighborhood with a blue-collar past and a middle-class, cosmopolitan future. If Zizkov was an organism, beer would be its blood and Borivojova Street its main artery - it's home to about two dozen bars and pubs. The sounds of live rock, punk, blues, country and Old Prague accordion pour from open windows on summer nights. And while the street...
...history this book traces, Appiah tells us that cosmopolitan is an idea as old as the Cynics of the fourth century B.C. who coined the expression (if not as old as the first enterprising “australopithici” who stretched and wandered out of Africa). Imported by the Stoics to Rome, where it greatly influenced the forefathers of modern Christianity, it lies close at the heart of Western history...
...route to our utopic cosmopolis, Appiah suggests, we will also save the arts—in the cosmopolitan model of constant intercourse and “contamination” over authenticity, great works of art are restored to being objects of common worth, the inheritance...
...taste, it is hard not to be compelled by Appiah’s final appeal: “The people of the richest nations can do better. This is a demand of simple morality. But it is one that will resonate more widely if we make our civilization more cosmopolitan...