Word: microcosm
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...bills, membership raids from the wily rival club, Hard Hollow, and fights between locker room cliques (the change-shoes-and-leave set v. the shower-and-have-a-few-drinks faction). With no trouble at all the sociology-minded will be able to find in Happy Knoll a microcosm of American society. The women are aggrievedly aggressive; the young are unruly and pampered; the dining-room help is incompetent; advertising men (speechwise, they are horrifying) are closing in; the club deficit mounts; free enterprise must sometimes be disguised with a sort of private welfare statism, as when the critical caddie...
...this unique microcosm, Cambridge, where every social and economic level in the country can be found, there also is a sub-culture; its idols aren't individuals, who can be pinned down and publicized, and it is not without a kind of cause, but it is a rebellion all the same...
...Texas, as the saying goes, is a state of mind; and as such, it is not bounded by thirtysix-thirty and the Rio Grande. Indeed, the bestselling 1952 novel by Edna Ferber, on which this picture is based, bellowed from the bookstalls that Texas in modern times is a microcosm of materialism, a noisome social compost of everything that is crass and sick and cruel in American life. Texas bawled like a branded dogie when the book was published, not without reason; if Author...
...Frills. Ed Murrow filmed a different sort of western for his See It Now program on education. By poking into Colorado's Jefferson County, where student enrollment has jumped from 6,000 to 19,000 in less than ten years, the CBS cameramen were able to examine in microcosm many of the educational growing pains that are racking the nation. Because the county was arguing whether or not to pass a $7,000,000 bond issue, Murrow caught arguments at white heat: from farmers and businessmen against the bond issue ("Let's cut out the educational frills...
...quite clever adaptation of the Alice story to a Harvard environment. Written by R. C. Evarts '13 and illustrated by E. L. Baron '13, both Lampoon editors, the book whimsically ridicules a number of Harvard professors, and revels in the apparent non sequiturs of an academic microcosm...