Word: microcosm
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...assurance born of passion and technical expertise. The picture may thus serve as the announcement of an adroit new director in Gören, a canny marshaler of film machinery and actors' resources. But first and final credit must go to Güney. Time spent in the microcosm of a Turkish jail has educated him to the human idiosyncrasies of men under pressure. Each of Yol's characters moves to his own music, discovers his own reasons for being, refuses to be translated into a revolutionary slogan or a reactionary curse. Güney has composed...
...some unspoken but definitely present pressure to conform to the Jonathon P. Higgonbottom III world. I think here and in the world in general, Harvard has been put on some kind of pedestal. I know I did," Williamson says, adding, "Harvard is a grand place, but it is a microcosm of the world and there's a lot of bad stuff...
Harvard has traditionally liked so think of its Houses as miniatures of the College--what Dean of the College John B Fox Jr. '59 has called "the ideal of the microcosm." But this week's confirmation of lingering disparities between the Houses in the racial composition and athletic participation of residents has dispel led that perception...
...result, administrators are bracing themselves for a probable series of discussions next fall--most likely in the Faculty Council and among the House masters--which they say will resolve the issue of whether the College should tamper with the generally popular preferential lottery to achieve the microcosm ideal...
Anyone who has ever been in the Raft Race knows what fun it can be. Every year, one of the rafts seems to enjoy what President Reagan might call "a definite margin of superiority For one afternoon, the Charles becomes a microcosm of international relations, complete with superpowers, neutral parties, and unstable third-world entries from places as remote as South House...