Word: cosmopolitans
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...that 13 of them were banned from the mails. The banks made it plain that no import licenses would be issued. The 13: LIFE, Look, Cue, Collier's, Saturday Evening Post, Vision, U.S. News & World Report, United Nations World, Quick, Business Week, Editor & Publisher, Harper's and Cosmopolitan. TIME was left off the new list only because it has been banned from Argentina ever since...
...words of its editors, the recent issue of Cosmopolitan contains one of the most explosive documents ever published. Major General Charles Willoughby wrote the article and directed it against newspapermen who criticized General MacArthur's Yalu River campaign last fall. But in blasting "the ragpickers of modern journalism" General Willoughby lets slip some interesting revelations about his own management of military intelligence...
...shameful that the New Yorker-like, the mature, the cosmopolitan CRIMSON should sound like the newspaper of a whistle-stop: It must fairly be admitted that the latter at least spare their readers a diagram of form, unless they have by mischance become pretentious...
Television brought the games to the biggest baseball audience ever. In Denver, which not only saw its first Series but its first TV, the Series was a sensation. Eighty sets, installed in the lobbies, private suites and show windows of the Brown Palace and Cosmopolitan hotels, drew such crowds that police were forced to throw up barricades to keep them in control. In Chicago, Cleveland, Philadelphia, Los Angeles, New York and dozens of other big cities, TV watchers were almost as excited-they clotted up around dealers' show windows, jockeyed cunningly for position at bars, ate with their eyes...
Copland's choices of a medium for composition are as varied as his travels. Three years studying music in the cosmopolitan Paris of the early '20's gave him a catholicity of musical interests which was later to be tempered by the jazz and folk melodies of America. Copland therefore likes to think of himself as belonging in several categories. "I can be the easiest or the hardest to understand," he says; "it depends on who I'm writing for." He has written for many people, having composed music for the radio, schools, the theatre, and motion pictures, as well...