Word: microcosms
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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Sally, a Harvard freshman who occasionally gulps handfuls of laxatives to cleanse her body of excess calories consumed during food binges, agrees. "I think Harvard is a perfect microcosm for eating disorders," she says. Afflicted with one offshoot of bulimia, Sally shuns forced vomiting ("I hate the idea of hurting myself"), and instead relies on laxative overdoses to combat overeating...
...will go on to London's Tate Gallery in early 1982. And he has been restored with great care, at much expense, in all his Victorian gloss and tearjerking bluffness. One hears again the squalling pibroch and the coarse jests of whisky millionaires tramping the heather. In this microcosm of gillies and grouse feathers, one is made to see as much moral pathos licked into the pink eye of a rabbit as is pulled by most other Victorian painters from the last act of Romeo and Juliet. It is, to put it mildly, quite an experience...
...group is largely self-supported, raising money through fairs, car washes, flea markets, dances and other community events. A professional teacher prepares residents for their equivalency diplomas; a court liaison works for residents who are fininshing prison sentences. In the cellar of the old school that houses this therapeutic microcosm, heaps of food stuffs and building materials of all kinds rest as testimony of a procurement office that flourishes--through both donation and barter. Other work-cleaning, cooking, business and construction--is also delegated to the residents...
...Julia Grant, finally, with security for life. True to Grant's own estimate of his accomplishment, the Memoirs do not mention the White House years. McFeely's own masterly work does, however, making those years and all the others in this stubborn striver's life a microcosm of the 19th century republic. Within it the biographer succeeds in making his flawed hero a man whom modern Americans "would recognize if they met him in a crowd...
...finds the traditional Spanish character most intact. Toledo, 70 miles south of Madrid, is a town dominated by the shadow of El Greco, the expatriated Cretan painter who adopted the town as his home. Toledo may be the most visited small town in Spain, but it is also a microcosm of Spanish history, art, and architecture...