Word: microcosmic
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...authors, it is not an uncommon practice for Congressmen to put creditors on their staffs as a way of repaying them. Of course, they do not actually work or even have to be in Washington. "Much of the story of Tom Dodd," write the authors, "is, in microcosm, the story of Congress...
...perhaps even a third, are there on their second tour; some noncoms have been in the country for six years and plan to stay until the war is over. Says Colonel Harold Aaron, commanding officer of all Green Berets in Viet Nam: "Special Forces provides a man with a microcosm he can control...
...curious to know how he can be so positive of the negative results of an experiment without first putting it to the test. Wouldn't it be horrible if, by some fluke of course, the entire program worked? Think, for a moment, of the consequences of a microcosm that would be allowed to determine the proper path for itself. That would be a terrible thing in a democracy. Betsy Ross would probably have dropped a stitch at the mere thought, and that long-haired rebel George Washington just might have fallen out of his boat...
...said that Harvard is trying to retain its identity as a New England institution, instead of becoming an homogenized microcosm of America. This partially explains the high number of Harvard sons who are admitted, he said...
...juxtapositions of its sequences have nothing to do with simple undercutting. For White Sale, irony becomes an instrument of investigation, not a tool of argument. And it is through irony that White Sale's vision of Cambridge, as a unique state of mind and as a microcosm of American society, is exposed. The primary irony is, after all, the conception itself. A show which propels an audience from the insular range of Cambridge to the vast expanses of history and world politics, only to pull that audience back again, from the conference table at Paris to lunch at the University...