Word: microcosmic
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...could be printed in much the same way led E.S. to experiment. He may have started simply by making studies for goldsmith work. Some of his prints, indeed, seem to be design patterns for chalices and monstrances. But he went on to fashion in copper a Gothic world in microcosm...
Almost inevitably, the first stop in Moscow is the Kremlin, which was opened to tourists nine years ago. Within its massive crenelated walls is a dense microcosm of Russian history, from lovely churches and 17th century palaces to its most recent addition, the modernistic 6,000-seat Palace...
...Winfred Gaul, is fascinated with traffic and touring maps, points out that he lives in Düsseldorf because it is the geographical center of a "seemingly endless area where roads become the interconnecting arteries between every possible manifestation of urban and rural conditions. My studio thus becomes a microcosm of what surrounds...
Bright Strands. Sergeant Brown, 24, is a Negro from the black belt of Alabama; in 16 sorties into Indian country he has not lost anyone on his five-man team, none of whom is a Negro. The cool professionalism of Glide Brown's patrol underscores in microcosm a major lesson of Viet Nam-a hopeful and creative development in a dirty, hard-fought war. For the first time in the nation's military history, its Negro fighting men are fully integrated in combat, fruitfully employed in positions of leadership, and fiercely proud of their performance. In the unpredictable...
...result is a stinging book that not only documents Kiev murders but also describes in detail the microcosm of a boy's world dissolving into unspeakable and incomprehensible patterns of horror. Each day was a constant obsession with the search for a crust of bread, the feverish reading of newspapers and posted orders for fresh fiats, since a nuance missed meant death...