Word: metropolitanism
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...gave birth to the phoenix and virtually every other underground newspaper in the country. And it is the absence of the war that has turned them into pallid imitations of what they once were, that has transformed underground into alternative. "I would choose to call the phoenix simply a metropolitan or urban weekly..." publisher Stephen Mindich writes in his tribute to the paper. That is the truth, and that is the problem...
Rodney Dangerfield--Metropolitan Center...
...special significance for a church that refuses to acknowledge the present Patriarch of Moscow because of his subservience to an atheistic regime responsible for the deaths of as many as 12 million Christians. The murder of the imperial family was "not merely an act of political reprisal," wrote Metropolitan Philaret, the church's New York City-based leader, in a special epistle on the canonization, "but an act principally of the spiritual annihilation of Russian Orthodoxy...
Well, dear diary, yes and no. The young man pondering his future, one night in 1960, was an assistant curator at the Metropolitan Museum in New York City whose name was Thomas P.F. Moving...
...length, it becomes prolix. Le style c'est l'homme, and Hoving's style reflects the character he showed when he was in power at the museum-windy, lapel-grabbing and insincerely populist. The tone is struck in the first sentence: "The vast halls of the Metropolitan . . . were awesomely still." All halls, tomes, sums of money and issues at stake tend to be "vast." Most stillnesses, works of art, asking prices and responsibilities are "awesome." The only sound on the hushed peaks of High Art is the labored twanging of Hoving's exclamation points. He sounds...