Word: microcosmically
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...could serve as a microcosm for the entire college experience, it would be Halloween.All Hallows Eve provides students the opportunity to create a new identity for themselves and pretend to be whatever they want, regardless of who they were yesterday.The holiday gives us license to engage in mischief and debauchery with relative impunity for a brief moment before we are confronted once again with the harsh realities of life.Halloween, like college, is a chance to do regrettable things without actually having to regret them.There is no such free pass in Ivy League football.With just seven games of conference play, each...
Friday's stock-market action was a microcosm: in Tokyo the Nikkei was down 9.6%; in Frankfurt the DAX - after dropping as much as 10% during the session - was down 5%; in São Paolo the Bovespa was down 6.35%. It was a global panic! Until things got to New York. The Dow and S&P both ended the day down about 3.5%. Big deal...
...true to Zisiadis now, but he could see areas where his friend had matured in the last few years.Sperduto added that he is excited to see the movie when it comes to the Square: he still doesn’t know who wins the election in the end.A MICROCOSM OF THE NATIONThe timing of the release of “Frontrunners” is certainly not accidental. Suh and Frankel said they love campaign movies, both citing “The War Room” and “The Perfect Candidate.” They wanted to place their...
Just as these individual moments reflect the spirit of candidates and citizens, the election itself acts as a microcosm for American society. This year’s face-off, in all its minute moments, plays like the trailer to an epic film about American life, starring all the A-listers—War, Economy, Race, Gender, Age, Tina Fey—and distilling with surprising accuracy the issues that define our national consciousness. Pretty big work for grains of sand...
...Small, all-but-forgotten towns like Arbroath capture in microcosm the tensions facing modern Scotland. Arbroath's hearts are tugged to the past, to tales of sea-faring greatness and also the Scottish identity-shaping myths of thwarted nationhood and lost sovereignty. An abbey overlooking the harbor holds the Declaration of Arbroath, a letter signed by local noblemen in 1320 demanding independence for Scotland. (The document is said to have inspired America's own Declaration of Independence). The dominant political party in Arbroath is the Scottish National Party (SNP), a left-leaning party that wishes to declare independence from...