Word: metropolitanism
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Jewett said the early admissions applicants are generally a "very strong group" and tend to include a higher proportion of alumni children and students from metropolitan and suburban areas than does the admitted group as a whole...
Glimp was dean of admissions and financial aid from 1960 to 1967, and dean of the College from 1967 to 1969, the year students occupied University Hall and College officials called in metropolitan police to carry them...
...with more substantive issues than the proportions of their martinis. Every year, it conducts extensive fundraising for the University, including the annual Harvard Club Scholarships, which are presented separately from the University's usual financial aid. The club offered members highly coveted tickets to the Tutankhamen exhibit at the Metropolitan Museum of Art this year as part of its fundraising efforts. The club raised $19,437 in scholarship awards for the 1977 - 78 academic year...
...Although no accurate census has been taken in 25 years, demographers think that sometime around the middle of 1978 the total population surpassed 1 billion. Approximately 85% of these people live in rural areas. Nonetheless, China still has 13 of the 50 most populous cities in the world. Metropolitan Shanghai, with an estimated 12 million inhabitants, has about half a million more people than Tokyo...
...pods' secret leader. But, on the whole, the San Francisco setting is a mistake. It is barely believable that the alien invaders could take root in a small, isolated town, as they did in the original. It is ridiculous to think that they could take over a huge metropolitan area without arousing opposition from more than a handful of people or the interest of the press, which might be counted on to observe with interest phe nomena like masses of citizens, lined up to collect their pods. The fact is that this film wants to have it both ways...