Word: microcosmic
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...would preserve, diffuse and, for the average wayfarer in his hostelry, enrich the meaning of all this loveliness. Why not, from Mr. Conant's laboratory, a Harvard College course on New England? A course that would give the newcomer the feel of his temporary home, and with it, a microcosm against which to measure the world...
...microcosm of the whole world of science, the Bio Lab contains a thousand variegated experiments and in one corner a group studies the flight mechaniism of birds while in another room Professor Henry Stetson plots the ocean bed. In the library during moments away from texts, the old wheeze is whispered about the Freshman who asked the libarian, "Do you have 'Sex and Internal Secretions,'" and was speedily answered, "Of course...
...captain of a ship is like a priest. He is not a mere man, but a symbol of authority. The world of the ship is more strict than any the landlubber knows, yet it is a microcosm of the wider world and its hierarchical values. Upon this parallel, Marcus Goodrich has built the story of Delilah, a U. S. destroyer, a world of 71 men. By any standards, it is a top-notch yarn. But what frames the story, gives it symbolic sense, restrains the turbulent narrative from getting too diffuse, clarifies each character, even makes amends for the faulty...
...spite of the old adage about Maine, Ohio is a better U. S. political microcosm. A microcosm of Ohio is the six-county 17th District. In every Presidential election since 1912, the six counties now composing the 17th District have gone with the winning wind. Divided 75% rural, 25% industrial, the 17th has never been stampeded. Small shifts in its votes are portentous...
...increase of shopkeepers in recent years has increased the use of money, instead of rice, as a medium of exchange. More moneyed farmers may now hire labor instead of exchanging it. In this rural microcosm of Japan, Embree distinguishes six classes: upper upper, lower upper, upper middle, lower middle, upper lower, lower lower. Some 27% of households have at least one servant, 26% include someone educated beyond the village school, 12% subscribe to newspapers. Suye Mura has one motorcycle, no automobiles, 160 bicycles, four sewing machines, five radios, 20 phonographs, and one telephone (in the village office...