Word: microcosmes
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...Bermuda. A history concentrator in Eliot House, Butler is expected to graduate in June with honors. His field of specialization is 19th-century Bermuda and he is writing a thesis on two prominent families from the era. Butler said he is using the families as a “microcosm to study the meaning of freedom and race relations” in Bermuda during that time period. Butler spent last summer in London and his home country of Bermuda doing research for his thesis, and over the summer of 2004 he traveled to India under the Harvard University Committee...
...Harry Potter set is an exclusive microcosm, one that comes with its own delights and its own dangers--in other words, it's not all that different from Hogwarts. "There's never been a day when I've thought, I really don't want to be here," Radcliffe says. "Because for me, it's this or it's school. And I've never really loved being in school that much." He does leave Leavesden from time to time. This month he's acting in an Australian coming-of-age movie called December Boys. But the outside world can take...
...first-time visitor, facing the Carpenter Center’s bleak concrete facade may be a bit daunting, but once on the fourth floor, entering the “Post-Brush” microcosm means embracing a captivating fantasia of color, chaos, and creation...
...island that seemed oddly close to Hollywood. Both shows had a goofy otherworldliness painfully out of step with their tumultuous times. Both spawned fanatical cult followings and countless spin-offs. Both, amazingly, were created by the same man, Sherwood Schwartz ... [He] called Gilligan's Island a 'social microcosm' when he pitched the idea for the show. Schwartz still calls it that. 'I knew that by assembling seven different people and forcing them to live together, the show would have great philosophical implications,' he says. 'On a much larger scale this happens all the time. Eventually, the Israelis are going...
...great thing for me about the convention is almost the little microcosm of every society of hardcores. The Jedis really represented this year. Actually a lot of Siths as well. And the anime kids and the indie-comic guys. You can always sort of tell what everybody is into, and there they all are. There is something both universal and totally marginal about the crowd. That's what I love...