Word: smalling
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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Jerry Brown: The Democratic long shot no longer attacks businessmen as profit-grubbing plunderers of the environment, but he is having trouble fitting his "small is beautiful" philosophy to the realities of a $2.4 trillion economy. Brown convincingly argues that the nation's throw-away economy squanders scarce resources; yet he would vastly expand exploration of outer space even though the payoff is doubtful at best. He calls for a ban on new nuclear power plants and would give much more of a subsidy to solar power, though almost every study shows that over the next two decades solar...
When a child wonders about size-Am I big for my age? Or too small? Will I always be short...
...tall?-there can be no more elegant and reassuring self-help book than Karla Kuskin's Herbert Hated Being Small (Houghton Mifflin; $6.95). Herbert gauges his mini-stature by standing next to his parents, always a mistake. Depressed, he sets out on his own. So does Philomel, who feels humongous next to her little family. But when boy and girl meet in the woods, they discover that they are the same size. Everything is relative, observes this cascade of wise rhymes. Einstein would have been pleased...
Inside, people are crammed shoulder to shoulder and spill outdoors into the courtyard. At the railing before the iconostasis, old men and women are so crowded they can hardly cross themselves. At their feet, small children kneel. The congregation is elderly as usual, but at least a quarter seem to be young or middleaged. The chanting and the choir, the incense, the smell of wax, the glow and reflection from hundreds of candles, the sheer body heat slowly become hypnotic. In one corner of the railing is a young woman in an expensive tailored suit, eyes closed, face pale, arms...
...during the Vins days are back. Recalling the times when the congregation had to worship clandestinely in the woods beyond the city, an old woman remarks, "Our services were of ten disturbed." Even now, a man adds "Sometimes at night windows are bro ken." There have also been two small fires in the church...