Word: everydayness
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...This revelry was the result of an atmosphere that successfully transcended college boundaries, everyday modesty, and good old-fashioned stage fright. The coffee house analogy didn't hold throughout the evening, as the reading was more about a shared intimacy of personal expression than the pretense so often associated with tall mochaccinos. Here were dozens of people listening intently on couches, on the floor, knitting, doodling, eyeing the crowd and copies of _The Harvard Advocate_. Inspired by the readers and listeners who had trekked multiple T stops and squished themselves together in a mid-sized common room, "Live Anthology" evoked...
...open mic session was pleasurably inconsistent, in quality and content. It didn't matter that some of the poems were less than stellar; the audience was ready to enjoy the collective effort at earnest communication-something you don't necessarily find everyday. It was interesting to note the lack of a clear-cut poetic hierarchy between the schools (sorry, Harvard). Nonetheless, Alexander Forrester '01 did make an impression with his poem, "Forty-Two," a six-part "answer to the question of the meaning of life" that weaved together allusions to the _Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy_ with Greek mythology...
...property and pay tellers." Traditional banks have also been losing individual customers to an ever-widening array of brokerage houses and online banks. By adopting an institutional angle, Deutsche Bank AG will be able to overlook those market risks - but where will their individual customers go to do their everyday banking? If Germany follows U.S. banking trends, says Baumohl, there will be a bunch of community banks jumping at the chance to fill the storefronts left empty by the departing giants. "In the U.S., as large banks get rid of their retail services, we have seen, surprisingly, an explosion...
...lowered to 18, are we voluntarily relinquishing our political voice? The issues being focused upon reflect our apathy. Candidates expect our vote to be trivial, and are focusing on issues directed at an older demographic. Issues of campaign finance reform and health care seem far removed from our everyday lives. In essence, our inaction has created a vicious cycle which threatens to drive our voice out of the political process: Youth seem disinterested in politics, so candidates focus on issues unimportant to us, resulting in further apathy...
...object in favor of a participatory process in which the visitor's own aesthetic experience constitutes the finished product. Rather than look at anything in particular, Lee encourages "viewers" to discuss their aesthetic ideas in a warm and friendly environment, helping to make artistic discourse part of their everyday lives...