By day, when he wasn't sweeping the floor or literally hand-folding the eight-page 5,000-circulation tabloid The Catholic Worker, Harrington was filling its pages with articles and reviews, many written under inscrutable pseudonyms to avoid Harrington-byline overload.
"It's not sweeping anything under the rug," Mr. Irsay said.
"These are not new powers, they're not sweeping powers, they're powers that are clearly defined," he told reporters.
They are not sweeping thinkers, but they make sensitive discriminations about the people and the circumstances around them.
But even in California, the steps taken on privacy legislation are not sweeping overhauls like those supported by the White House.
Then, there are academics and intellectuals who, though they usually aren't willing to defend the rights of child molesters, may be prepared to argue that a culture of moral relativism is not sweeping the country.
As Mary Lavo, the merchandising manager in charge of cosmetics for Barneys, says, the custom-scent trend is not sweeping huge numbers because of the time (and money) the process requires -- like couture versus ready-to-wear.
The outcome of the Proposition 8 case is likely to affect the lives of gay, lesbian and bisexual Americans for years to come, even if the final disposition is not sweeping enough to wipe out all state laws currently banning same-sex marriage.
We're not blowing people out the way we did last year, we're not sweeping through games the way we did last season, but we definitely feel like we're in a good position in terms of the playoffs and where we stand in our division".
They are not sweeping news analyses, only the stuff of a close observer: that dazed, ashen police officer silhouetted against the rubble in Manhattan, the Afghan infantry column moving in a haze of dust at sunset, the star-flecked galactic night arching over a rooftop in Kabul on Christmas eve.
