Word: microcosm
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When the balloting began, America was heard and seen in microcosm. No one could hear the roll call of the states without feeling, consciously or not, that this was poetry, and of an epic sort: Arizona, Arkansas, Colorado . . . Kansas, Kentucky and Maine . . . Nebraska, Ohio, the Dakotas . . . Vermont and Wisconsin and Wyoming. The voices from the floor were rich with the flavor of the broad land. They spoke with local pride: Georgia, the empire state of the South . . . the great, free state of Maryland . . . Virginia, the cradle of democracy . . . Hawaii, standing on the threshold of statehood...
...Koerner (TIME, April 28). In Manhattan's Whitney Museum last week, Koerner stole the show again. The Whitney's Annual Exhibition of Contemporary American Painting was largely a dance of painted shadows: pictures that were either flatly abstract or academically pictorial. By contrast, Koerner's dramatic microcosm of modern life, which he called Vanity Fair, had the power of a compressed reality...
Eight hundred delegates at Madison, speaking officially for schools attended by over one million American students, tested in microcosm a nation's state of union. Theirs was the diversity of their elders and theirs was the chance to show whether isolationism and prejudice will hamstring tomorrow's adult generation. Happily compromise won the day on the two big issues--one international and one domestic--which had threatened to send disgruntled delegations home...
...would make Tom Girdler scream for John L. Lewis. Japanese labor techniques grew out of the Japanese worker's effort to reconcile the paternalistic structure of Japan's industry with relatively alien class-struggle ideas. The labor-relations adventures of the Pilot Fountain Pen Co. is a microcosm of this effort...
...picture tells of its war-and of the world as a whole-in microcosm. On one small part of the front, hideously ill-equipped except in courage, Loyalist airmen prepare-to raid a Fascist airfield and to blow up a Fascist-held bridge. In this tiny, heroic effort, to no ultimate use, they succeed-and are destroyed in the attempt. In slow streams down the rocky mountainside, which are like the streaming of the nation's blood, the people of the region gather to watch, weep and salute, as dead and wounded airmen are brought down from their high...