Word: microcosms
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...dedicated patrons say the bar is a microcosm of Riverside, the Cambridge neighborhood in which it is located...
Carney's objections to the ROTC program mirror those of the faculty and other groups which oppose the Rudenstine compromise. And interviews with alumni who played important roles in Harvard's stormy history with the program reveal a split that is very much a microcosm of the current debate...
Students seeking diversity have a plethora of avenues available to them, including classroom discussions, intramural and extracurricular activities, and choosing their own blocking groups. If students wanted each House to be a microcosm of the University, then the current system of non-ordered choice--which has been in place since 1991--would have resulted in this patterned distribution...
...gone on pointing out during the past 15 years, the third-wave pioneers are still stuck with all those vestiges of a second-wave society: big corporations, big government bureaucracies, smarty pants in mass communications who stubbornly think that information remains theirs to spoon-feed to the unwashed. In Microcosm (1989), Gilder reaches, by a somewhat different route, the same dismissal of old-line thinking and technology that the Tofflers do. In a chapter titled "The Death of Television," he writes, "In an age when computers will be responsive to voice, touch, joysticks, keyboards, mice and other devices, television...
...summit of his clerical ambition was reached when he became Cardinal-Archbishop of Cracow. As Pope, he is a Pole, as Roncalli was an Italian. But both men, as instinctive regionalists, have repudiated modern nationalism and have tended to see Europe as an amalgam of historic regions -- a microcosm of a world of peoples rather than of nations. A regionalist finds it much easier to develop true internationalism than a nationalist, and this is one reason why both men were at ease as head of a global organization, speaking urbi et orbi -- to the city and to the world...