Word: everydayness
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...effort to bring alive French culture to his language students, Wylie spent a year studying everyday life in Roussillon, a rural town in Southern France. The book which records his experience and observations there, titled Village in the Vaucluse (1957), became a classic of European ethnography...
According to Hoffmann, Wylie was "anextraordinary teacher and trainer ofundergraduates" who distrusted theoreticalapproaches and concentrated instead on theconcrete details of everyday life...
...matter what the numbers show, the voices that count belong to everyday citizens hardened to the reality of city life. Do they feel safer? Brenda Clark, 45, still complains about the nightly crackle of gunfire outside her South Bronx home. Anna McClendon, 71, distrusts police efforts to enlist civilians in identifying criminals. Says she: "You're liable to get yourself killed." That may be true, but on paper, anyway, the streets aren't as mean as they used...
Members of the union and the administrationhave been meeting everyday, either in subgroups oras a full team...
...hand, many scientists take issue with A.A. dogma. Says physician Stanton Peele, an addiction expert: ''Every major tenet of the disease view of addiction is refuted both by scientific research and by everyday observation.'' Treatment programs in Canada, Britain, Germany and Australia have long distinguished between problem drinkers, who consume too much alcohol but can cut back if they get help, and hard-core alcoholics, whose only hope is a lifetime of sobriety. Even the most avid proponents of abstinence admit that some former alcoholics have successfully navigated the road to moderate drinking...