"There's a prevailing racist, provincial attitude on the part of the jazz mainstream to accept Latin jazz as an idiom in its own right," said Nat Chediak, the Miami-based author of a Spanish-language dictionary of Latin jazz and an associate producer of "Calle 54," a documentary tribute to Latin jazz that features Mr. O'Farrill and other artists, released by Miramax Films this year.
On the one hand it made Schlegel's approach to different cultures and their artistic production much more tolerant, because he was aware of the fact that one needs to immerse oneself in their culture in order to grasp the universal or poetical nature of the work of art and avoid a provincial attitude.
Nor was I impressed by the occasional cheap jokes lobbed at provincial attitudes in Southern and Midwestern small towns.
Barking orders at the dutiful porter (Anthony L. Gaskins), she proclaims her worldliness while betraying more provincial attitudes.
"How much longer?" T'Pol, not yet Archer's shipmate, replies haughtily, "Until you've proven you're ready... to look beyond your provincial attitudes and your volatile nature".
Despite growing optimism among families in Moscow and St .Petersburg, more provincial attitudes, in cities like Voronezh, Yaroslavl and Irkutsk, are not so confident.
Professor Josipovici seems reluctant to answer his own question, other than to hint that it may have crept back to the continent whence it came, shaking its head ruefully at the provincial attitudes of small-minded, beady-eyed Britain.
And the same is true of the grown-ups in the movie, who are caricatures of small-town narrowness until they turn out (with one exception) to be caring people whose kindness had been hidden behind provincial attitudes and funny hairstyles.
At the age of forty-two, Steinbrenner had the provincial's awestruck attitude toward New York, which he retains to this day.
Between the heavy-handed lines, director Adrian Popovici provides telling glimpses of a provincial, aggressively retrograde attitude toward women and the seedy nightclubs where they're preyed on.
Several police officers, all speaking on the condition of anonymity, blamed the ambivalent attitude of the newly elected provincial government, led by Imran Khan, a former cricket star, for declining morale.
