Word: microcosms
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...styles, cults, think tanks and Disneylands seem to be spreading everywhere. California's people have created their own atmosphere, like astronauts. Yet it could be that the state is not really so different from the rest of the U.S. as it seems: that it is, in fact, a microcosm of modern American life, with all its problems and promises-only vastly exaggerated...
...whole piece is divided into three "movements" and each one contributes the same meaning in microcosm that the whole aims at. Thus each section begins on an up note, come down in the middle and is then silently and tenderly resolved. This sketch of a musical structure is brilliantly filled out with every minute of listening space taken up by a staggering number of wistful melodies, exquisite guitar work, and, near the end, an amazingly meaningful drum solo by Ringo...
...represent all points of view within each constituency, elections of each group's representatives should not be held along essentially artificial lines such as the Houses, but at large, under a proportional representation (PR) system. With a carefully designed PR system, each committee would be as close to a microcosm of the Faculty and its students as any electoral system could make...
...many ways it has become a microcosm of America two-thirds of the way through the century. The "South-side," the Southern central half of the state where tobacco is still a cash crop, was no longer the base for the Byrds-the elite-who had ruled the state for so long until 1969. Like the South of today, black voter registration has upset the old formulas. The area has the same problems-integration, hunger, and a white voting majority (but one which has to deal with a higher percentage of Negrovoters) -that most of the rest of the South...
...schoolboys as a microcosm is hardly new. From The Lord of the Flies to Young Torless to If . . . . the metaphor is made and remade until it seems ready to become a staple of film culture, like the western. The Boys of Paul Street, a joint U.S.-Hungarian production, maintains the tradition without illuminating it. Still, its decelerated rhythms and nostalgic photography provide a rare glimpse of that era when good and evil were different colors and student protest was a whispered grievance in a corridor...