Word: microcosmic
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...when the camera swings to the Anglo-Saxon side of the Pacific, com passion is jettisoned. That football game, for instance: manifestly the scrimmage is seen as a microcosm of American platitudes. But if sport so accurately reflects a society, what are we to say of the Indians' bloody game of lacrosse? Or the Latin American madness for soccer? The film's visits to Middle America strive for irony and, often, emerge as smugness or crass caricature. An ex-P.O.W.'s return to New Jersey is played against a background of red-white-and-blue-blooded...
There are no private rooms or open spaces in the world John Hersey describes in his novel My Petition for More Space. Hersey's microcosm of the world--New Haven. Connecticut--is so crowded that its inhabitants stand in line for everything and everything has its allotted time: a twenty minute wait for six minutes in the john, thirty minutes in line for fifteen at the breakfast table, a matter of hours at the Bureau of Petitions in order to ask for a change in one's life a different job, permission to have a child--and to be almost...
Maybe Richard Betts picked something up out of the aftermath because his immediate situation was a microcosm for what was happening in general. The early Allman Brothers were the last holdouts of the genuine breed of sixties rock, and they were the best in the business-well-balanced, super-competent and, with their steeped-in-Georgia soulfulness, basic. Playing "Whipping Post" under the bright lights, the sound was fierce--Bill Graham introduced them at Watkins Glen as "the band with balls." Well, that was fine, but there was nothing distinctive about them except that they were uncorrupted and the best...
...variety of people; families, children, students, couples, married and unmarried, elderly persons; incomes and aspirations ranging from low and poor to upper middle and upwardly mobile; structures ranging from largely wood frame single, double and triple houses to a few low and mid-rise apartment buildings. It is in microcosm the urban mix, with all its problems and its promise. It is bounded roughly by Massachusetts Avenue on the west, Beacon Street (the Cambridge-Somerville line) on the north-east and Harvard University and Museum Street on the south and south-east; its main street is Oxford Street...
...admonish disputes between teammates, but he likes to regard his profession as a controversial one, as he says sportscaster Howard Cosell does. "I like Howard. I think he's added a lot to sport broadcasting because he's controversial with his attitude that 'a sport is just a microcosm of life.' People hated him at first, but they continued to listen...