Word: microcosm
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...Nasser in the late 1950s and early 1960s. All Arabists agree that the Six-Day War of 1967 was a pivotal event in the history of the region. Says Shimon Shamir, Arab specialist at the Shiloah Institute in Tel Aviv: "The conflict with-and defeat by -Israel was a microcosm of the whole Arab experience with the West." He means that ever since the Renaissance, the whole power of Arab ideology, or political Islam, has been in conflict with the power of Western technology and political capitalism-and that the Arabs have lost in nearly every conflict...
...Tuskegee, Gomes found "a social microcosm by and for black folks," and the contrasts with home were striking...
Boxes figure large in his work; and each box, with its lid and compartments and sliding drawers, is a microcosm. At first one is seduced by the greeny blue, aquarium-like interior of Box 17 (Box C). Then the eye discerns the contents, wavering amid their reflections from the walls: a glass goblet filled with a bouquet not of flowers but of vicious glass shards; a morbified pink foot; a small geometrical plastic construction, reclining like a tiny fakir on a bed of nails...
...function in this society as well as in any other. His roles are many: "bull-goose loony," "Jesus Q. Christ," father figure, and, for Kesey's autobiographical purposes, perhaps, Chief among his Merry Pranksters. He continues to function, all right, but can be survive in this mad microcosm that supposedly reflects the outside world? This is the question Kesey set out to answer in his novel and in his life, and the reply came back a tragic...
...that the U.S. Supreme Court has required free counsel for any indigent facing jail, the situation in New Haven, says Hersey, represents "a microcosm of what I believe to be a national choice of great urgency . . . Will the courts go forward in New Haven's present direction, preferring the use of public defenders who, working closely with prosecutors, stay abreast of clogged dockets by going in for more and more plea bargaining and less and less client-oriented service? Or will it be seen, eventually, that a defense of the poor fully as vigorous as that given to those...