Word: microcosm
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...virtually impossible to translate a short story into a quality film. A good short story captures a brief glimpse of the human condition, turns on a fleeting moment of confrontation or revelation; a movie derived from such a microcosm is usually afflicted with a bad case of inflation. Take The Swimmer, John Cheever's mythic pool odyssey. One of the finest short stories in a generation, it was magnified into one of the worst movies...
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Rhodes called Lawrence "a microcosm of the country, although some elements are a little rougher than in other places...
Honor America Day in Washington on July 4 could prove a microcosm of the national encounter. Its sponsors conceived it as a nonpartisan happening, a patriotic family outing on a Disney scale. As an earnest of their neutral intentions, they enlisted Senator George McGovern and some other heroes of the war-protest movement. But the rally will be dominated by Evangelist Billy Graham, Comedian Bob Hope?both close friends of President Nixon's?and a 1967 Miss Teen-Age America finalist who will recite "I Speak for Democracy." To many, it appears to be aimed at implicit support...
...area is now Nixon's by more than birthright. Orange today is affluent, expanding rapidly, suburban in appearance and conservative in politics. It is, in short, a microcosm of the America that may one day yield a national Republican majority. If there were sentimental reasons for re-establishing a Southern California homestead, there were practical ones as well. The West is growing faster than the East. California in 1972 will have the highest electoral vote of any state (it already has the largest population). In terms of both ideology and numbers, the G.O.P. counts California as the Western pillar...