Word: microcosmes
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...guards that keep us safe and with whom we interact daily are just as much a part of our community as our deans and professors, and we will not allow their demands for a better workplace to go ignored. As a university, Harvard can choose to be a microcosm reflecting society’s worst ills (oppression, discrimination, inequality), or it can choose to push forward and set the standard for which all workplaces hope to reach...
...frequently dreary lobby of Gund Hall, an exhibition hovers between document and poem, chaos and order, microcosm and macrocosm. In “African Cities, A Photographic Survey by David Adjaye,” on display through May 23, Adjaye navigates these gentle tensions masterfully and in doing so reveals how an architect “sees” architecture and urbanism, in the several senses of the verb.Adjaye, the Graduate School of Design’s Tange visiting professor in architecture, was born in 1966 in Dar es Salaam, Tanzania—just years after the country gained independence...
...MAINTAIN MY PRETENSE AS A TOURIST, I would have been safer staying north, near the game parks and Victoria Falls. But Matabeleland is a microcosm of Zimbabwe's implosion. Thousands in the region are dying of malnutrition. Hundreds of thousands survive by trapping wild animals or bare-handed mining. When I arrived in the gold-rush town of West Nicholson, I met with a local miner in his bungalow. Several times during our 10-minute chat, he would step out for a few moments. It soon became clear why. When I emerged from his house, two plainclothes officers were waiting...
With over 17,000 islands, the Indonesian archipelago has enough travel possibilities to exhaust a lifetime. But if all you can spare is a few days, consider the microcosm that is Desa Seni, desaseni.com. At this Balinese resort, the accommodation consists of 10 traditional wooden homes, offering one, two or three bedrooms each. Houses are in various ethnic styles and have been imported from different regions of Indonesia before being rebuilt and refurbished. Some are over a century old. They are laid out in the manner of a typical village, and decorated with handicrafts, antiques and paintings from all over...
...Tyger tyger, burning bright / In the forests of the night / What immortal hand or eye / Could frame thy fearful symmetry?”“What’s ‘symmetry’?” questions one Jem Kellaway, replicating in microcosm the now well-established project of each Chevalier novel: to parse out the complexities of a work of art. As in her depiction of Johannes Vermeer’s city of Delft in her 2000 breakaway bestseller “Girl with a Pearl Earring,” Chevalier here evocatively imagines a fictive...