Word: microcosms
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...curious to know how he can be so positive of the negative results of an experiment without first putting it to the test. Wouldn't it be horrible if, by some fluke of course, the entire program worked? Think, for a moment, of the consequences of a microcosm that would be allowed to determine the proper path for itself. That would be a terrible thing in a democracy. Betsy Ross would probably have dropped a stitch at the mere thought, and that long-haired rebel George Washington just might have fallen out of his boat...
...said that Harvard is trying to retain its identity as a New England institution, instead of becoming an homogenized microcosm of America. This partially explains the high number of Harvard sons who are admitted, he said...
...juxtapositions of its sequences have nothing to do with simple undercutting. For White Sale, irony becomes an instrument of investigation, not a tool of argument. And it is through irony that White Sale's vision of Cambridge, as a unique state of mind and as a microcosm of American society, is exposed. The primary irony is, after all, the conception itself. A show which propels an audience from the insular range of Cambridge to the vast expanses of history and world politics, only to pull that audience back again, from the conference table at Paris to lunch at the University...
...university. They feel, with some reason, that their education is not sufficiently existential, that it is not relevant to today's life. They want a larger voice in choosing professors and framing courses. Particularly in Europe and Latin America, student radicals view the university as a microcosm of society, with its lack of class mobility, its numerous bureaucracies, its concentration on material goals. Their aim is to transform the university from a personnel agency for the economy to a more vocal force for social protest and reform. They want it to take over the role once held by such...
...HARVARD is indeed a microcosm of American society," the Association of African and Afro-American Students said in a statement Monday. And Afro itself has given the Harvard community some sense of the grief, anger, and heightened zeal for rapid reform which Martin Luther King's death has aroused in black Americans. What Afro has done and said in the last few days leaves whites with a mixture of sympathy and consternation...