Word: microcosm
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Another graph "The Man Who Loved Islands" registers the lifetime development of a man's passion for aloofness. He first indulges his passion by buying an island where he is "The Master" over his own microcosm of necessary attendants-a butler, a housekeeper, a carpenter, a mason. Wearying of these servants, who cheat him, quarrel among themselves, and pine for the peopled mainland, he retreats to a smaller island where he is served by one old couple and their daughter. Out of sheer indifference he allows himself to be seduced by the daughter, whom he marries because...
...account of Stanford's Hoover reception would be complete, however, if it represented the university's attitude as one of unalloyed satisfaction with Herbert Hoover. Like any other social microcosm, the Stanford community (faculty, students, trustees, alumni) has its discontented minority-men who will never agree that all Hoover has done for Stanford has been for the best. They complain, chiefly, that under the Hoover influence-he has been on the Board of Trustees since 1912 -Stanford has changed from a liberal arts college of limited enrolment, which it was founded to be, into an evergrowing institute...
...Willis boom finally became a hollow frogskin when three other names-Lowden, Curtis, Watson-were given out as unofficial "second choice" men for whom Willis delegates might eventually vote. This made Ohio a microcosm of Republicanism all over the country-Hoover v. the Field. Candidate Dawes had the self-respect to forbid the Willis people to include his name on their auxiliary roster, saying he was still for his friend, Candidate Lowden...
Moscow. "Moscow is bewildering at first. Its colossal size, its great streets and avenues, its countless side-alleys and byways, its mighty churches and large apartment houses impress one as a complete microcosm, indeed a big world of its own. I was surprised at the large number of shops and business houses open. . . . As I expected, the city itself shows evidences of disrepair. I saw no new buildings under construction, but numerous old buildings are undergoing repair. Many of the ill-paved streets are in the hands of contractors, who are restoring them. The thousands of horse-drawn droshkys, which...
...this microcosm there are five parties; two that dwell in the valley of indecision, one that is guided by a principle, which is a rule of inaction, another that knows what it wants and gets it--all the money there is going--, and a last party that is afflicted by a conscience. And of course these parties hold caucuses, which you want to get into if you are outside and which you want to get out of if you are inside; wherein it is not so very different from some things we have heard about in our own Cambridge...