Word: microcosm
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...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...
This statistical equilibrium is symbolic of the whole tone of the house. It has very little special character of its own, yet it strives to maintain President Lowell's original ideal of a House as "the college in microcosm." It does not try to mold its members into either gentlemen or scholars, but lets its members mold it and themselves...
...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...
Vienna tries to act like her old self. But despite attempts at gaiety in her outdoor cabarets, an apparent tension fills the air. It is easy to understand why. Like Berlin, Vienna still has a four-power occupation, and hence a microcosm of the cold...