Word: microcosms
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...modern world; they view religion with a certain anthropological sophistication. Yet they are past Nietzsche, because they really would like to believe." More than 250,000 students are helping tutor children in depressed areas. A more immediately fruitful area for social involvement is the campus itself-a malleable microcosm of an existing and perfectible world. Harold Taylor, former president of Sarah Lawrence College, observed recently: "The student has become the most powerful invisible force in the reform of education-and, indirectly, in the reform of American society...
...does Manila (pop. 1,300,000), where the polarities of the nation are reflected in microcosm. Sprawled on both sides of the sluggish Pasig River, the city straddles a grey-green current that carries both sewage and water lilies into Manila Bay. Many of its streets are potholed; rats chitter behind the wainscoting of its finest restaurants; street urchins peddle everything from lottery tickets to fragrant sampaguita garlands ?all at outrageous prices. The current craze requires shops to have a D apostrophe preceding the English names, as in D'Artland Gallery, D'Elegant Theater, D'Stag Cocktail Lounge...
...split over the summit was symbolic of everything wrong with so-called Arab unity. Four years ago, Nasser and Feisal took different sides in the war in Yemen, a microcosm of the far larger struggle between the Socialist and conservative forces in the Middle East. By early this year, Feisal was talking up the possibility of an "Islamic" summit meeting next March that would theoretically include all Moslems, but clearly had the aim of rallying anti-Nasser leaders into a single alliance. So far, Feisal has strong support from non-Arab but strongly Moslem Iran, as well as Tunisia...
...acutely than any earlier biographer, discerns his peculiar powers: the geysering energy, the shimmering charm, the surging sympathy and undefended heart that left him open to a range of experience the greatest novelists alone outreach. Yet for all his genius, Boswell as Pottle sees him is common man in microcosm, an all-too-human being rattling, prattling, wriggling, giggling, creeping, weeping along through a procrastinated adolescence like a great big lovable ninny who believes that all the world is his playpen and all possible experience his pabulum...
Threat from Islam. Despite growing opposition to his Yemen policy at home, Nasser is not about to pull out empty-handed after 3½ years of fighting. Yemen has become a microcosm of the whole Middle East struggle between Socialist and Conservative forces-a struggle that is not going at all well for Nasser. The latest blow was Saudi Arabia's scheme for an anti-Nasser Islamic Alliance, which has rallied open support from Jordan, Tunisia and Iran, and tacit backing from Kuwait and Morocco. Nasser is also locked in a struggle with the Red Chinese, who are sharply...