Word: microcosms
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...acutely than any earlier biographer, discerns his peculiar powers: the geysering energy, the shimmering charm, the surging sympathy and undefended heart that left him open to a range of experience the greatest novelists alone outreach. Yet for all his genius, Boswell as Pottle sees him is common man in microcosm, an all-too-human being rattling, prattling, wriggling, giggling, creeping, weeping along through a procrastinated adolescence like a great big lovable ninny who believes that all the world is his playpen and all possible experience his pabulum...
...most of them, according to Agent Edward W. Moose, "people who believe in interracial housing and feel the price is right." Shops, schools and recreation facilities will be added to service a population expected to surpass 3,500 by 1969. The goal: to transform Marin City from a microcosm of big-city racial woes into an integrated community befitting its idyllic setting. "If we can't do it here," says Byron Leydecker, chairman of the county supervisors, "we can't do it anywhere...
Threat from Islam. Despite growing opposition to his Yemen policy at home, Nasser is not about to pull out empty-handed after 3½ years of fighting. Yemen has become a microcosm of the whole Middle East struggle between Socialist and Conservative forces-a struggle that is not going at all well for Nasser. The latest blow was Saudi Arabia's scheme for an anti-Nasser Islamic Alliance, which has rallied open support from Jordan, Tunisia and Iran, and tacit backing from Kuwait and Morocco. Nasser is also locked in a struggle with the Red Chinese, who are sharply...
...second part of the film, set in a German prison camp for Polish officers, is unrelated except as another microcosm of a nation brooding over defeat in a state of moral and spiritual collapse. The inmates cling to the fiction that during five long years just one heroic officer has escaped. Actually, he is a tuberculous wreck, coughing his life away in an attic hiding place overhead. The only truly noble officer so despises his fellow prisoners that he spends most of his time in the isolation of a large makeshift box, reading...
...blend of baroque Romanita and Christ-inspired simplicity, of tradition and innovation, the procession symbolized in microcosm what the Second Vatican Council has become. Protestant Theologian Albert Outler, an observer at Vatican II for the World Methodist Council, sums it up as a "Reformation, Roman-style " Unlike Luther's drastic break with the medieval past, it is a reformation in which change is often so subtle that it sometimes does not seem like change at all. It is a reformation in which radical ideas blossom in traditional Latin garb, in which continuity receives as much emphasis as novelty, in which...