Word: microcosms
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...wife and I are like the people in Magic Town, the '40s movie about a pollster (James Stewart) who moves to a town that is a perfect microcosm of national opinions and adopts a cover to keep the townspeople from getting self-conscious. In fact, I sometimes imagine James Stewart having coffee in our kitchen, disguised as a UPS deliveryman. "Some people on the route are saying that the President's actions were reckless and inexcusable," James Stewart says...
...live with the hope that as she battles to remake herself, South Africa will be like a microcosm of the new world that is striving to be born," he added...
...Golden Girls'" Sophia used to say, picture this: suburban New York, July 1998. A lonely girl sits in her house perusing the Princeton alumni directory for her boss. She makes a list, noting the names of the men. The class of 1983 seems to her a microcosm of successful Americans--Vice President of this company, CEO of that firm. That's now. Flashback 15 years though, and they were probably as unexciting as her male classmates at Harvard. Sigh, the boys. Suddenly, she sits up at the rumble of a truck, realizing that she must show the garage repair person...
Being mayor of the nation's 44th largest city may seem small consolation for someone who once aspired to the White House, but Brown doesn't see it that way. "Oakland is a microcosm of the unfinished American agenda," he told TIME. "The challenges here are the challenges any political leader in America faces. This is a place where I can make an impact." At last...
...York magazine wins the contest for stupidest headline of the week: "Is Israel Still Good for the Jews?" The April 27 cover story tells of a very real divide between American and Israeli Jews through the microcosm of a 50th anniversary celebration gone awry. But in the process--and just in time for next Thursday's celebration of Israeli Independence Day--journalist Craig Horowitz manages to confuse a cultural schism with political separation...