Word: polyglotism
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Canadian Pattern. Four days after King's murder, Ray had hightailed across the Canadian border, and was renting a $10-a-week room from Mrs. Fela Szpakowsky on Toronto's polyglot Ossington Avenue. Just why Ray chose Canada is not entirely clear, but, almost surely, one reason was the knowledge-widely circulated among convicts in the U.S.-that it is ridiculously easy to get a Canadian passport. All that is needed is the gall to ask for one and a birth certificate-and the certificate is not strictly necessary...
After a few bouts with this infinitely fractured surrealist French, most readers will concede that Author Van Rooten, who is a polyglot Manhattan actor, has succeeded in three minor and un likely enterprises: producing a new parlor game, pulling the leg of all pedants everywhere, making a joke in French, of which, for once, only English speakers can see the point...
What makes the final product so fresh and captivating is the skill with which Bearden employs his polyglot artistic heritage. His jigsaw Afro-American faces borrow their cubistic profiles from Picasso; yet, as Bearden says, Picasso in turn was inspired by African masks. Bearden also cadges tricks from Bosch, Brueghel and the neo-Dadaists, pasting a tiny sun in a woman's eye as she greets her returning juvenile-delinquent son (pun intended) in The Return of the Prodigal Son. All this intermingling has the effect of broadening his pictures from the specific into the universal. It takes...
...retorts that there is no guarantee Britain will ever get into the Common Market, or that, if it does, France will accept an influx of dark-skinned Mauritians. With the is land's 394,000 Hindus behind him, Sir Seewoosagur seems to have made his point. But the polyglot population also includes 126,000 Indian Moslems and 25,000 Chinese who do not seem overly eager for Hindu rule; there may be more than vocal dissent if Sir Seewoosagur's majority tries to carry out the party plank of independence...
...Polyglot Population. The Israelis achieved social miracles as well?if on a more modest scale. The waves of postwar immigrants threw together Jews of all possible backgrounds and appearances, from the brown-skinned illiterate Yemeni to the bearded Orthodox Jews of East Europe's ghettos to the sport-shirted sophisticates of the West. Gathered from 100 different countries of the Diaspora, they spoke 100 languages and worshiped their God according to the divergent traditions of myriad Jewish sects. Though many modern Jews pay only lip service to their religion, Orthodox Jews dominated Israeli society and lawmaking from the first...