Word: metropolitanism
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...Equidistant from Montréal and Toronto, Queen’s is the sine qua non of Kingston, Ontario, a town whose historical importance—it was once Canada’s colonial capital—has been sucked out of it by the growth of its two metropolitan neighbors. The university, meanwhile, has endured, as has a significant coterie of townsfolk—as one might expect, the two are at constant loggerheads...
...originally indicating the “mother” city to which the hinterlands were bound in a filial relationship, contains within it the possibility of recognizing the mutual relationships which make the city and countryside an indissoluble political unit. If Obama truly is our first metropolitan president, then, let us hope that it is under this greater metropolitanism that he will orchestrate policy...
...Metropolitan A.M.E. Church...
...church you choose, it has to have a pastor who is the antithesis of Jeremiah Wright. "That would include finding a pastor who preaches on classical Biblical issues as well as contemporary issues. The trick is to find a thoughtful, measured, evenhanded big church. I suspect a place like Metropolitan would fit that description," says Cromartie. The church is not far from the White House and calls itself "the cathedral of African Methodism." As you would expect with an A.M.E. church, the congregation is almost entirely black. But more important, Cromartie says, it satisfies the goal of "just finding...
Collector's Cabinet. New York's Metropolitan Museum of Art bids farewell to its director, who has worked at the museum for 45 years, the last 30 as its head, with the exhibit The Philippe de Montebello Years: Curators Celebrate Three Decades of Acquisitions - a hodgepodge of 300 works of art, from a wooden Egyptian statue to Jasper John's White Flag, collected under de Montebello. Through Feb. 1, 2009. 1000 Fifth Avenue, at 82nd Street, New York City...