Carroll isn't just big in the little way that Beatrix Potter is big; his bigness is as universally agreed upon as the bigness of Mozart or Molière or Wayne Gretzky.
"There's a general anger at bigness — whether it's big government, big business, banking — and a sense that the game is rigged in favor of people with connections and money.
And I said, no — no, it's got to be big, because the world is big, and I want to see that bigness in the confines of this one room in this one house; I want it confined to one room, the vastness of all the world, every latitude and longitude imaginable, I want it squeezed into one shape, and I want to look at it whenever I want..
Texas is the platonic ideal of bigness; the biggest one can get is "as big as Texas".Paul DomjanOxford.
In 2007 David Cameron's "quality of life" group condemned Livingstone's "vulgarity of bigness", complaining that the ugly location of his towers was damaging London's appearance, its history and its tourist economy.
There must be something more to the success of such a varied group than their skeletal and muscular inheritance.But what of our second heretical notion, that the best sports are those where bigness is less rather than more important?
Most sports, after all, have athletes who excel not despite their bigness but because of it.
Similarly, the rocket-like ascent of Venus Williams to the top ranks of women's tennis clearly owes much to her 6ft 1in (1.85m) height and a serve that travels at more than 120mph (193kph).But if bigness is such an asset, why was it that in 1998 Mr McGwire's close rival in the race to break the home-run record was Sammy Sosa, a man five inches shorter and 40lb lighter?
That is four times as much as the Hubble space telescope, a reasonably big piece of science, churned out in its first two decades.NEON, then, truly does represent a shift by ecologists towards bigness.
Today's Supreme Court is as comfortable with bigness as Brandeis was uncomfortable with it.
Mr Dimon is passionate about the benefits of bigness, insisting that "anyone who says [economies of scale] don't exist is crazy".
