Word: everydayness
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Dates: during 2000-2009
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...walk or bike, you can spread the message to those around you: Be careful, considerate, cautious. As the Hippocratic oath goes, first, do no harm. This, the holiday season, is the time we traditionally take to cherish those around us. We would do well also to remember, everyday, that we have each others’ lives in our hands...
...last few days she is all that I’ve thought about. But even in the moments when I wasn’t remembering some funny e-mail she sent me or some ridiculously silly conversation we had our first year, Shira has been a part of my everyday life...
That some Americans have lost their confidence in a form of travel that has become an essential part of everyday life is not so much unfortunate as it is completely normal. Investors worldwide were apprehensive for months about returning to the everyday, buy-low-sell-high routines of a market that had free-fallen 30 percent in just several weeks after 1987’s Black Monday. High school students nationwide were wary of returning to their hall lockers and classrooms for weeks after the 1999 Columbine High School massacre...
...Homespun, Ulrich studies what 11 objects from colonial everyday life have to say not only about their owners but also about the development of an American icon—the home-based rural economy in which virtuous women spun clothes and household linens while virtuous men tilled the soil. Each object—from an Indian basket dating from 1676 to an unfinished stocking of 1837—was specially chosen for its particular ability to flesh out the romanticized notion of “the age of homespun” that Horace Bushnell coined during the centennial celebration...
...just nostalgic reminders of a simpler time, long replaced by factories and Gap.com; they have a lot more to say about where we have been. Women occupy a special place in Ulrich’s research; they often appear as both the creators and preservers of these everyday objects. Their place at the foundation of the home-based economy indicates that even though “women’s liberation” as we understand it is an innovation of the twentieth century, colonial women, too, found ways to assert themselves...