Word: microcosm
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...stay away from him.' " Bicycling gives the riders a strong sense of independence. "You're a free agent," says Bragdon. "It's a gesture of self-determination. I meet lots of people and our friendship lasts for about 20 blocks. It's a microcosm of the city...
Demon Ideology. The island of Carnglass, in the Outer Islands of the Hebrides, turns out to be merely "the microcosm of modern existence." The book's hero is an American lawyer, Hugh Logan, who accepts a commission from a wealthy, Scots-born industrialist to travel to Carnglass and buy the island and Lady MacAskival's ancient castle. In the Kirk microcosm, he obviously represents beneficial U.S. power and the rule of law, just as Lady MacAskival represents an old order that a modern conservative may mourn but cannot hope to restore. Lawyer Logan's allies...
...Soviet Union. "Under this stout hull," said Dr. George Kistiakowsky, President Eisenhower's chief scientific adviser, "there are now hidden-or will soon be-the most advanced and diverse products of our technology; turbine and rocket propulsion, nuclear power and nuclear weapons, electronics ... It is a breathtaking microcosm of American technology." Blue & Gold. The 5,400-ton George Washington and her sister subs can roam the seas of the earth at speeds and depths far beyond enemy search capabilities...
Universal Microcosm...
...lack of cultural feeling which the term usually connotes. It is rather a posture of universality, created by the sense of being superlative in certain areas. New York City is in this way an example of provincialism, in that the staunch, chauvinistic New Yorker sees his city as a microcosm of the universe, and believes that everything important in the world is in some way embraced by New York. Similarly, Harvard's well-known complacency regarding its academic superiority affects its powers of self-evaluation: it can recognize and examine its own academic characteristics without admitting that there are other...