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Word: microcosms (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1970-1979
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Last year the Swedish Academy had difficulty qualifying the works of the Nobel laureate for literature. Isaac Bashevis Singer's "apparently inexhaustible psychological fantasy," it wrote hesitantly, "has created a microcosm, or rather a well-populated microchaos...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: God's Novel | 11/19/1979 | See Source »

...city's ethnic, racial and social diversity make it "in many ways a microcosm of the nation," he adds...

Author: By Elizabeth H. Wiltshire, | Title: The Referendum: Gauging City Sentiment | 11/5/1979 | See Source »

Saturday's 41-14 Harvard loss was a microcosm of both the Harvard and the overall Ivy seasons. Cornell has dealt with its question by platooning a scrambling Mike Ryan with the pass-oriented Mike Tanner, a measure that has brought it a devastating offense...

Author: By David A. Wilson, SPECIAL TO THE CRIMSON | Title: Big Red Crush Crimson at Schoellkopf | 10/15/1979 | See Source »

...Chrysler as a symptom. We are the classic microcosm of everything that is wrong with the U.S. You can list the problems. Energy? That's what cripples us. Inflation at 13%? Hold it, mine's higher than that because petrochemicals and lead are up more. Productivity? I'm glad you asked-we ain't got none. Sometimes when I wake up, I think of what I'm doing. Yeah, I'm trying to save a company but I never invent anything any more. I never create a job. Everything I do is to meet...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Business: Lee lacocca's Hard Sell for Help | 10/8/1979 | See Source »

...Later, a glue factory located itself on the island, and later yet, a huge dump, where much of Boston's sewage and trash was left for much of this century. An island-wide, spontaneous-combustion fire devoured the island in the early '60s, and what remains is perhaps a microcosm of every holocaust/armageddon novel ever written...

Author: By William E. Mckibben, | Title: Piracy, Prisoners and Lepers of Old | 8/10/1979 | See Source »

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