Word: smalls
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...ultimate destination, the small village of St. Ives, was crowded, but according to our innkeeper, no more crowded than during a normal weekend in August. Many of her fellow bed and breakfast owners still had vacancies for eclipse week...
...lucky few missed the chance of a lifetime. If I didn't have to be in London on Wednesday for work, nothing would have kept me from Cornwall, not even the warnings. To experience a natural phenomenon with a crowd of other humans, to realize how small we are and to have our world changed by the shadow of a heavenly body, would have made it worthwhile...
Telegraph Avenue, the city's most famous thoroughfare, is dotted with used bookstores and homegrown coffeehouses. A block east is People's Park, originally a vacant lot seized from the university, so sacred to radicals that even the idea of the construction of a small volleyball court in 1991 led to accusations of tyranny, sit-ins and arrests. The city's parking meters refer to "Indigenous People's Day" rather than Columbus...
Progressives at Harvard could take a page from the Berkeley playbook. Hundreds of people backing each other's causes is more impressive than small handfuls at isolated candlelight vigils and demonstrations. In that vein, the Rally for Justice in March was an important step. Conservatives criticized the rally which linked the Progressive Students Labor Movement, the Coalition against Sexual Violence and the Living Wage Campaign, for bringing together causes that had nothing in common. But it's no accident that the Rally for Justice made CNN and The New York Times and brought students' complaints to the fore...
...those troublesome paths of reflection down which it itches to run, I say, despite all this, I find myself huddled at the end of the day in a corner of a remote coffeeshop, collecting realizations amidst cold drink's condensation and hot day's perspiration, scratching myself for a small day's big ideas...