Word: internationalistic
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...young Egyptian named Omar Sharif. But at film festivals, Chahine was for decades the prime, often the only, representative of an entire continent, Africa, and a world religion, Islam--though his family was Christian and his heritage Lebanese and Greek. He was both a nationalist and an internationalist, both an art-house auteur and a director of movies that were popular from Morocco to Indonesia...
...both a nationalist and an internationalist. He loved Hollywood movies - as a young man he went to Los Angeles, studying acting at the Pasadena Playhouse - and he learned as much from their robust pace as he did from the gritty humanism of Italian neo-realist films and the romantic sweep of Indian cinema in its postwar Golden Age. He was both an art-house auteur and a director of popular hits, at least in the Arab crescent. He made political points, often different ones in different movies, but his didacticism was typically overwhelmed by his irrepressible urge to entertain...
...saying: "Je vais aider les Haitiens" (I will help the Haitians). Some French speakers later reported that he sounded like he said, "I will help the States," or "I will help the Chechens." And we translated it as: "I will confirm every stereotype accusing me of being an effete internationalist...
...Hamre is about as far as you can get from the man who oversaw the Policy Board until 2004: Reagan Pentagon official and neo-conservative hero Richard Perle. Hamre runs the distinctly moderate and internationalist Center for Strategic and International Studies, had a hand in organizing the Iraq Study Group, and has served on a number of advisory commissions about Iraq for the last few years. He is on any reasonable person's shortlist to be Gates' replacement as Defense Secretary in a Democratic administration. Hamre, from South Dakota, is an affable 57-year-old who is known...
...goes without saying that all international students would have to be expelled immediately. We cannot risk their internationalist ideas polluting the wellspring of pure American patriotism...