Word: microcosms
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...guardians and nourishers of free inquiry and expression. They are by their very nature the very custodians of our cultural heritage and the progenitors of a new day. They should be the testing ground for any and all ideas, even foolish ones. The American university should be in microcosm what we would wish for the American society, a free and open community filled with searching and thinking individuals, each seeking his own answers in his own way, yet each extending full respect for the ideals and life styles of others...
...never been made so frighteningly real. Next month, Collins of London is bringing out a far better translation of The First Circle .? The second novel is Cancer Ward, based on the author's own struggle with cancer. It employs the familiar device of the hospital as microcosm of a sick world. Versions are being published in Britain by the Bodley Head and in the U.S. by Farrar, Straus & Giroux and Dial Press. The appearance of these works is a literary event of the first magnitude?and inevitably a major political event as well...
...Player. Is Wolf God? Or merely man trying to spell God with the wrong mental blocks? Either, or both, is possible. Wolf's academy seems a splendid microcosm for mirroring a civilization and its discontents. Unhappily, as the book progresses, Stern slights the academy in favor of a labyrinthine exploration of Wolf's hang-ups. To the useful tale of his youth, Stern ties a string of current circumstances, including a preposterously pregnant ex-wife and a mad film director whose sole purpose is to prove that God, man and Wolf are all prisoners of their past...
...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...