Word: microcosm
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...empire, and most importantly their culture as we are losing ours to the tube. We are now experiencing the emergence of punk rock which is nothing more than powerfully amplified chants, moronic mindless chants. One punk group calls itself the "De-Evolutionary Band." Will close inspection of that perfect microcosm, Harvard Yard, reveal a regression of Man? Will students' minds grow shallow and their bodies soft from addiction to the tube? Will not the pillars of Cambridge crumble in the presence of punk, or will they prove stronger than those of Rome? T. Apollo Whitbread...
...streets every Aug. 12 to celebrate the lifting of the Derry siege, and Irish Republican Army guerrilla activity continues sporadically. But Derry residents are proud of their progress and believe it relevant?to some degree, at least?to the rest of the troubled province, "Derry is a microcosm; Derry is what the whole thing is about," says John Hume, 41, a founding member of the Catholic majority party. "What we want to show is that the boot is not on the other foot?that whatever power you've got should never be used against a minority...
...citation reads: A master chronicler of his times, he perceives in the American suburb a microcosm of the divisions, tensions and incongruous ecstasies of twentieth-century life...
...Irish holes-in-the-wall where the Hugheses and McAfees gather to put away their beers and spill their guts, and flashy dives where the Puerto Ricans and Blacks, so new to the neighborhood, huddle in self-protection. This may be Queens, but it is really New York, a microcosm of the entire city. It is a place where the races are realizing that they are going to live together, like it or not, and where no one likes the idea enough to talk about it. But most of all, it is a place where no one really cares about...
...search for love and adjust to the passing of their family patriarchs (Burt Lancaster and Sterling Hayden). As Alfredo and Olmo grow older, their personalities are increasingly shaped by the volatile social forces that remade Italy during and between the World Wars. Eventually their isolated agrarian community becomes a microcosm of a nation battered by Fascist, socialist and industrial revolutions...