Word: polyglots
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...Steinway ornamented with a machine gun. Many have spent time in Europe. The most repulsive character in the movie is a suave French-speaking member of the Christian aristocracy whose hypocrisy glares through a greasy patina of European culture. The journalists talk among themselves in a glib polyglot babble that reduces their different Western nationalities into a single category as undefined and unarticulated as the Western idea of "the Middle East...
Miami was selected last year as the home base for TIME's new Caribbean bureau, the only foreign bureau located within the U.S. The decision reflected the city's polyglot ambience and its emergence as a commercial and cultural center for Latin Americans. The members of the Miami staff hardly expected, however, that their home town would become their biggest continuing story this year, and a cover subject. In six weeks of intensive reporting, TIME's correspondents conducted more than 250 interviews, from the streets of the "little Havana" district to the refugee camps. They talked...
Gwynne B. Evans, Cabot Professor of English Literature, called Levin a "polyglot," with an unusually broad range of academic interests...
...prospect of Tito's imminent death revived quiescent fears about what might befall Yugoslavia afterward. Would the polyglot Balkan nationalities that Tito had united into a nation resume their old, antagonistic ways and 'tear the country apart? If so, would the Soviet Union jump into the disorder to reassert its hegemony over the maverick Communist state...
...Fiji Islanders and the Irish are still on the way, but already on the ground in southern Lebanon are some 4,500 blue-helmeted soldiers from France, Norway, Canada, Senegal, Nigeria, Iran and Nepal. These polyglot forces make up the United Nations Interim Force in Lebanon (UNIFIL). Its mandate: to form a buffer zone between the Israeli army and the guerrillas of the Palestine Liberation Organization. Last week TIME Cairo Correspondent Dean Brelis and Jerusalem Bureau Chief Donald Neff separately visited the region for a glimpse of what U.N. Secretary-General Kurt Waldheim has called "the most difficult peace-keeping...