Oz worries that the current era is proving hospitable to fanatics, who exist on every side and in every culture, because "as things get more complicated, people crave the simple, one-sentence answer to everything".
In Egypt, the government sector has traditionally proved more hospitable to women.
And Hollywood has not proved particularly hospitable to other foreigners either.
But the Web has proved extremely hospitable to them despite a difficult-to-enforce industry rule that restricts their release to sites that use age-verification tests.
It offers three meaty roles to chew on, which is why in London it proved so hospitable to an endless succession of stand-up comics and character-actors.
As problematic as the program has become amid the ethnic melee of the north, the majority of A.L.P. sites are concentrated in the south, where a comparatively homogenous Pashtun population has proved more hospitable.
And a handful of the many New York mosques scouted by the police demographics unit have in the past proved remarkably hospitable to very inhospitable men, not least those steeped in the forbidding Salafi strain of Sunni Islam.
"Lukashenka gives us money," says an elderly passer-by, "what do they give us?"Getting used to horrible thingsThe parts of its history that seems to have most shaped the sensibility of Belarus are the wars that have been fought across its invitingly flat land (though its forests proved as hospitable to partisans as the flatness did to cavalry, and later tanks).
If Mead were alive today, she might be surprised at the diversity of the form, which has proved equally hospitable to glamorous competitions, like "American Idol," and to homely documentaries, like "Pawn Stars," which depicts the staff and clientele of a Las Vegas pawnshop.
And that was one reason why, from Oscar Wilde to Samuel Beckett, it was to prove so hospitable to the experimental spirit of modernism.
