Word: microcosmic
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...miles from Warsaw and an eternity away from a deaf, distracted world. Hardly anyone, then or now, ever knew of Lodz. And yet it was there, in the second largest concentration in all of Europe, that some 240,000 Jews were crowded. Within the barbed-wire boundaries a microcosm arose. Children were born, stores were opened, a road constructed, hospitals set up, administrators employed, records kept. It is these records, miraculously preserved in private libraries and underground caches, that provide the first detailed portrait of a Holocaust society. In The Chronicle of the Lodz Ghetto, Editor Lucjan Dobroszycki, a survivor...
...embodies the ideological divisions that tear at the fabric of the country: the old and respected Chamorro clan, a wealthy political and publishing dynasty that has given Nicaragua four Presidents and three generations of newspaper publishers. In their differing and passionately held points of view, the Chamorros are a microcosm of a nation at odds with itself...
Driefontein is a microcosm of the problems caused by the country's attempt to segregate blacks and whites. Drafted in 1959, South Africa's program of "separate development" calls for gradually ejecting the blacks from their communities and transferring their citizenship to various remote homelands. The aim is to ensure that South Africa's 5 million whites artificially become the majority in the country. The plan will also put an end to arguments for giving the country's 21 million blacks representation in Parliament, a right that they have always been denied under South Africa...
Pennsylvania State University Professor Constantine Salilios-Rothschild, pointed out that context is crucial to understanding perceptions of women in the Third World. "You have to look at the microcosm in which the woman lives," she said...
...current preferential lottery system was thrown into question last year by a study revealing significant differences across the Houses in the academic performance, athletic participation, and racial composition of residents. Dean of the College John B. Fox Jr. '59 voiced concern that some Houses fell short of the 'microcosm of the College" ideal envisioned for each House when the House system was founded in the early 1930s, and some administrators began talking about restructuring the housing assignment system...