Word: microcosm
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While the struggle between the Western and Soviet blocs occupies the center of the world stage, another drama of co-existence is taking place in microcosm in the Middle East. Four hundred miles of fluid boundary separate Israel and the neighboring Arab states. Hardly a night passes without bullets flying across that border, and last week the two hostile camps come to the verge of full-scale war when Israelis and Egyptians fought a hit-and-run battle in the Egyptian-held Gaza strip. The immediate danger of a new Arab-Israeli war seems to have passed for the moment...
...House-assignment efforts have aimed at but fallen short of the ideal once voiced by President Lowell:" . . . what we need is a group of colleges each of which will be national and democratic a microcosm of the whole university." This statement and those by succeeding administrators have echoed the common desire to avoid the provincialism that often stems from residence with people of similar backgrounds and interests...
...rubber, tires, tubes, 'raincoats; its Malayan rubber plantations (92,800 acres) are the biggest private landholdings in the British Commonwealth. With 1953 sales of $680 million (and a net of $14 million), Dunlop completely dominates the Commonwealth market for rubber goods. Dunlop, in fact, is often called a microcosm of the Empire...
Many of the High Authority's troubles stem from difficulties inherent in the task, and from difficult men. But most of all, its crisis is just a microcosm of the crisis of Western Europe itself. The Schuman Plan was meant to be an economic counterpart of EDC's military partnership. So long as France hesitates over EDC and so long as France's suspicion of Germany is met by German resentment of France, so long will Monnet's brainchild be a sickly youngster in a household of quarreling parents...
...need a system of grouping that will bring more men from different parts of the country, men with different experience and as far as possible social condition into each group. In short, what we need is a group of colleges each of which will be national and democratic, a microcosm of the whole university...