Word: macrocosm
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Euripides made, very gently so as to avoid the hemlock prescription, but sharply enough to cut, the microcosmic death of a man symbolize and be the death of the macrocosm, Athens...
...this sense, then, Dunster is not the home of the all-around man it is trying to produce. Neither is the house the ideal microcosm within the College macrocosm...
Plugging for less stuffy language, Bernstein noted "microcosm, merchandising, macrocosm and meteorology all in one tasteless sentence," and suggested Times-men write with "prep school kids in mind constantly. You'll need them to pay your salary by and by." After discovering "Thanksgiving has come and gone and Christmas is upon us and there doesn't seem to have been a single turkey dinner served up in the news columns 'with all the fixin's,'" Bernstein joyfully wrote: "Innkeeper, wine all around!" He also pounces on sloppy checking of names. When a story from Germany...
...generation is awaiting from it. It is a reply which bursts forth from mature and calm consideration of only one aspect of the universe, namely, its mutability. But this is already enough to make the entire human race, which is the peak and the rational expression of both the macrocosm and the microcosm, become conscious of its Exalted Maker, realize that it belongs to Him . . . and then, falling on its knees before His Sovereign Majesty, begin to invoke His name...
...great moment in the drama of medicine: the moment when Dr. Faustus opens Nostradamus' secret book, comprehends in a flash the sign of the macrocosm, and is able at last to conjure up the Earth Spirit. But that was not the way Dr. Fleming reported his epochal perception. Said he: "I was sufficiently interested in the antibacterial substance produced by the mold to pursue the subject...