Word: polyglotism
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Pictured in the popular mind as a bastion of Empire comparable to Gibraltar and Malta, Singapore was in reality a defenseless, polyglot commercial town of Chinese. Japanese, Indians, Jews and British who were as divided on their feelings about the war as they were in their peacetime pursuits: "East was East, and West was West, and the twain did not meet except to exchange dollars or back horses." While guns boomed within earshot up the peninsula, life went on in Singapore much as before, with bars, brothels and theaters thriving. In typical shrewd Singapore fashion, people turned...
Faced with this polyglot group, Manager Murtaugh is wise enough to stay in the background, build his regulars' confidence by leaving them in the line-up through slump and surge. Murtaugh is the soul of tact when he walks out to relieve a pitcher. His standard remark: "It's one of those days. We'll get you a little help." This season Murtaugh himself is not sure why his Pirates have rebounded so well from last year's disappointing fourth-place finish. "You never know why they do good," he says. "You can only be grateful...
Tomato Sauce. Like 37-year-old Azzam himself-who was born in Cairo, lives in Geneva, drives a Chevrolet station wagon and speaks five languages-the song is a hybrid, Eurafrican polyglot. Written in French, Italian and Arabic, its lyrics may have been found in a Babel...
Plunked down in midtown, Wayne in every way is the heart of polyglot Detroit. The chaotic, 80-acre campus borders two auto-choked expressways and the city's two finest museums. Its buildings include Charles Addamsish mansions that once housed Detroit's wealthy. Its students fill the classrooms 14 hours a day, and some of them have to meet in a garage. Yet everywhere loom the cool creations of famed Detroit Architect Minoru Yamasaki (TIME, Nov. 17, 1958), who is turning ugly Wayne into a graceful "superblock" of imaginative buildings...
Most of the 1,248 employees around Radio Free Europe's Munich headquarters liked to grumble about the food in the small, spartan cellar cafeteria. Nonetheless, they were irked when without explanation the cafeteria was closed down last month. The union representing RFE's polyglot American, East European exile and German staff went to management to find...