Word: microcosms
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Carr asserts and convincingly defends, the thesis that once the revolution was seen merely in strategic terms by the Stalinist Comintern, the people's cause was as good as lost. The Civil War was a microcosm of the failure of the Soviet state to follow through Mars's call for the uniting of the world's workers. Unfortunately, Carr Shows only a little sympathy for the Trotskyites forces who refused to see the necessary distinction between the progression of socialism and the defeat of Fascism. His argument implies the moral failure of any reasonably strategic socialist country, and this reflects...
...main argument use by the proponents of the random lottery system is that the Hoses should represent a "microcosm" of Harvard which in turn is supposed to be a microcosm of our diverse "real world" I would like to argue that in fact the current system results in a better representation of the real world than the proposed random system...
House population should approximate a microcosm of the college population. It is a given that Harvard largely impersonal place. Except in their Houses, students usually are exposed only to students with similar academic and extracurricular interests. Only the House can bring together students of different backrounds and interests. This contact is crucial to the so called Harvard experience. With a more equal distribution of students among the Houses, the quality of undergraduate life at Harvard will improve, giving students valuable experience will survive long after graduation...
...reputations of certain first-choice Houses have led administrators like Dean of the College John B. Fox Jr. '59 to say he has "discomfort" with the current housing system in which Houses fall way short of the ideal "microcosm" of the College...
...present system doesn't achieve the ideal microcosm [of the College on the whole], but I'm not leading a crusade to change it," Fox explains. Yet, if the study shows respondents' doubting the current system. Fox says, the administration will "look at the the situation seriously...