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Going into the cross country season, Crimson coach Bill McCurdy was prepared for the worst, as graduation and injuries had reduced the Harvard squad to almost nothing. Not only was McCurdy lacking the talent that had marked previous Crimson squads, but the preseason training camp was attended by the smallest team since its inception...
Rosengarten is operating on some tricky assumptions in his book: if Nate Shaw is a typical black Southerner, only with an unusual mind, then in telling his own story he is also telling the story of all other black Southerners as well. His smallest action, if seen as typical of an entire race and class, immediately becomes universal in its importance and profundity. If Nate Shaw buys a mule, say, it may make an interesting story in itself; but if it's actually all struggling black tenant farmers acting, with Nate as a distillation of all their experiences, whatever...
JAMES HASN'T YET found a way to circumvent a Cambridge law which forbids brass or percussion instruments in his cafe, but the piano and guitar and woodwind instruments are enough to draw out for hours even the smallest item on the menu...
...less than eight months. Despite polls that showed the Labor Party winning by a margin of possible landslide proportions, Wilson came out of the election with a wafer-thin parliamentary majority-319 seats in the House of Commons, or two more than half of the total-and the smallest popular vote (39.3%) for any majority government in Britain's history...
Everyone feels that he has a stake in the team. The Packers are, in fact, the only community-owned team in pro football. (Packer stock was sold at $25 a share 25 years ago, when the club was nearly bankrupt.) Green Bay (pop. 90,000) is also the smallest city with an N.F.L. franchise. Says one Packer coach: "People here have only four things to do-eat, sleep, make babies and root for the team...