Word: microcosms
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...island of Santo Stefano is the kind of loaded microcosm an experienced reader can smell a mile off. So, it happens, can everyone else. Santo Stefano's main source of wealth is a rich guano deposit that envelops it in an aroma visitors find intolerable but that the natives are used to. "It smells like money to them," Ben muses...
...Microcosm. Hughes does not write with a researcher's smug wisdom-after-the-event but with an artist's power of recording the past as if it were the living present. His method is that of creating a system of related microcosms (thus saving nine-tenths of the wordage of the usual novel of public events). In the German half of The Fox in the Attic, the microcosm is the family of Augustine's baronial kin, who live in a huge old castle near Munich...
...ward documentary. His book is a strong, warm story about the nature of human good and evil, despite its macabre setting. For as the boardinghouse provided a stock slice-of-life locale for another generation of writers, the sanitarium seems to appeal to many modern writers as a comparable microcosm of the times...
...stay away from him.' " Bicycling gives the riders a strong sense of independence. "You're a free agent," says Bragdon. "It's a gesture of self-determination. I meet lots of people and our friendship lasts for about 20 blocks. It's a microcosm of the city...
Demon Ideology. The island of Carnglass, in the Outer Islands of the Hebrides, turns out to be merely "the microcosm of modern existence." The book's hero is an American lawyer, Hugh Logan, who accepts a commission from a wealthy, Scots-born industrialist to travel to Carnglass and buy the island and Lady MacAskival's ancient castle. In the Kirk microcosm, he obviously represents beneficial U.S. power and the rule of law, just as Lady MacAskival represents an old order that a modern conservative may mourn but cannot hope to restore. Lawyer Logan's allies...