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Graham Bright of the Harris organization emphasizes that Wisconsin and the three other state primaries now completed do not represent "a microcosm of the whole country." He cites the factor of heavy Republican crossover voting in the Wisconsin Democratic contest, mostly for Wallace and McGovern. Such a cross-over is not reflected in Harris polls, since only Democratic and independent voters are tabulated. Similar polls taken by Gallup are limited to Democrats alone...
...with pretty much anything she wanted to-ghosts, angels, a devil selling tape recorders to African witch doctors, a London mock Eden for young ladies, some of whom were immolated for lusting after a Schiaparelli dress. But what we have here is a grim little all-purpose parody and microcosm-with resonances that echo in all directions but never quite ring true...
Next week's contest in Wisconsin, with twelve candidates on the ballot in a large state that is in many ways a microcosm of the U.S., will be the first real bloodletting of the year, the first primary in which candidates risk being eliminated. Rural and industrial, populated by blue-collar workers, farmers, ethnic minorities and students, Wisconsin is known for its independent, sophisticated and erratic voting behavior; it was the home of Senator Joe McCarthy, but also of Robert LaFollette. John Kennedy undercut Humphrey there in 1960, and it was on the eve of the 1968 Wisconsin primary...
Clermont-Ferrand, a middle-size Auvergnat city not far from Vichy, gradually emerges as Ophuls' microcosm for Occupied France. The film never stops shifting from then to now, with dramatic scenes often commented upon retrospectively by generals and statesmen who took part. But the camera returns again and again to a cast of Clermont-Ferrand residents, presenting their painful, fragmented, cumulative remembrance of things past. Mendès-France was imprisoned in the city before escaping to join De Gaulle. He discusses the convulsions of Anglophobic, anti-Semitic and antidemocratic feeling that after the debacle helped Frenchmen blame everyone...
...that intellectuals, the kind that get in there are themselves power-seekers, narrow, angry about not having the kind of power. Certainly, a Cambridge party is political to a fault. It could be that the academic world is a microcosm that breathes into it a certain bias, which when applied to the national scene amounts to a negation of the way it's more or less worked for 190 years...