Word: microcosmes
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...Harvard represents a microcosm for this general confusion. In the dining hall poll cited earlier, while only 16 percent of those surveyed aligned themselves with libertarian politics, 28 percent considered themselves to be socially liberal but fiscally conservative, a typical libertarian stance. This is a large minority to be sure, and one that could probably grow given impetus and organization...
...orchestra from the hushed and tense ending of the third movement of Beethoven’s Fifth Symphony into the explosive and majestic opening of the final movement.Despite the fact that only half of the orchestra was present, the orchestra still sounded magical.In a way, Yannatos is a microcosm of the HRO—darting into the future, no matter what burdens the past has put upon him.“I’m not sure how many more years I’ll be here,” says Yannatos...
Rorty thus misses a fundamental point: novelists do not flee from the lofty abstractions of philosophers to the microcosm of the contingent because they are forsaking the universal, but rather because they believe the contingent is the only true portal into the universal. They believe that the one humdrum Dublin day in the life of a middle-aged, Jewish cuckold who defecates, masturbates, feeds animals, attends a funeral, remembers his dead son, and kisses the ass of his adulterous wife can speak not just to one perverse character’s experience but to the experience of humanity...
...Poker is a microcosm of life," Lederer said. "Good players make their own luck...
...China. But this summer, the most beautiful places I found were neither the most attractive parts nor the grittiest ones.Instead, the sites that were most appealing to me captured both of the city’s aesthetic extremes—modern ugliness and ethereal classicism—in microcosm. In doing so, they served as solitary points of departure from which I could begin to understand Beijing as a whole.I found that kind of beauty, for instance, at Jianguomen, an ancient astronomical observatory. The rooftop collection of huge, rusted telescopes and instruments is itself surrounded by skyscrapers, and the building...