Word: microcosms
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...Ghana's Kwame Nkrumah through the balanced anti-Communism of Nigeria's Sir Abubakar Tafawa Balewa, would seem to guarantee the group a hearing in every capital. After all, the argument ran, the Commonwealth speaks for a quarter of the world's population, hence represents a microcosm of world opinion...
Author Singer's deep-running narrative makes a microcosm of the Warsaw ghetto. Reminiscent in scope of the great Russian novels of the 19th century, his novel moves with the leisure of abundance-eddying, pausing, plunging. Its surface ripples with passages of delicate description, trenchant dialogue and precisely observed detail; its depths roll forward with the heavy, hidden surge of life itself...
...time. Versailles tells of 17th century French rationalism in its orderly facades and the geometry of its gardens. Michelangelo's sculpture reveals in its robust anatomy the renaissance of man's faith in himself. Yet few objects compact so much of a world into a microcosm as the Romanesque cross recently acquired by Manhattan's Metropolitan Museum...
...Donald Soule, seems a microcosm of the show. It is bulky, well-produced and obviously quite expensive, but throughly uninspired. When two rows of columns are at the front of the stage and one is at the back, that's outdoors. When the three rows are brought together, that's indoors...
...Microcosm of Business. The directors of small companies tend to be dominated by the president or controlling owner, who has a board because state laws require it and who packs it with his pals. A few giants, notably Standard Oil (N.J.), have completely "inside" boards consisting of only their own executives, and Du Pont has a "proprietary" board in which family members and other large stockholders predominate. But most leading companies choose a majority of outside directors and give them a large voice in policy...