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This apathy, this self-delusion or self-denial formed the grounds for masters and the College dean to propose in November the greatest change in residential housing assignment since the early 1970s. Alarmed by stereotypes of the houses and concerned that the houses no longer represented the educational microcosm of the University's diversity, officials moved to introduce partially random assignment of rising sophomores...
These remarkable moving images and hundreds like them on display last week in Philadelphia at the tenth annual exposition of the National Computer Graphics Association are more than pretty pictures. Each represents a three- dimensional microcosm, stored within the memory of a computer, that human operators can turn, twist and reshape all they want. When special goggles, bodysuits and gloves are used to display and manipulate the images, those microcosms can become so real that viewers feel they have stepped through a kind of electronic looking glass into a completely artificial, computer- generated world...
...also hold a special place in my heart for the Harvard housing system. Take my word as someone who has experienced house life--each house is truly a microcosm of this grand cerebral melting pot we call Harvard. The houses offer students a rich store of perks--ranging from unparalleled advising resources to a bevy of senior common room professors always accessible and eager to engage residents in intellectual discourse...
...University does not equal a microcosm of society...
Stone Farm is clearly a microcosm of the world, Eden after the fall. And Pelle must inevitably lose his innocence as he explores this ruined Paradise, but not his sense that there must be more to life than the evils that incessantly assault his eye, or his inarticulate hope of finding some new Jerusalem beyond his constricted horizon. This maintenance of faith is, indeed, his conquest. And it is given force and poignancy by its contrast with the defeat of his father's ever dwindling dreams...