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Sophistication in America
Cort, David | February 2, 1957 issue

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The author says that sophistication is one of the most embarrassing words in the language because one can hardly tell whether it is being used in a complimentary or derogatory sense. It may refer to a person with a lack of taboos, an experience of wines and women, mere unshockability, a fatigue of life, an affected manner, three university degrees or true wisdom, whatever that is. The incredible news is that sophistication, or a reasonable facsimile, has quietly become the most profitable line, dollar for dollar, in the magazine business.

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PERIODICALS; DEGREES, Academic; UNIVERSITIES & colleges; DEROGATION (Law); FACSIMILES; BUSINESS
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