Word: everydayness
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...pulse of energy, a person -- to ensure that the message is received, even if the messenger is explained away. "It is not that skeptics do not experience the mysterious and divine," she explains, "but rather that the mysteries are presented to them in such a flat and factual, everyday, reasonable way so as not to disturb." The rule, she says, is that people receive only as much information as they can bear, in the form they can stand to hear...
...experiences of an angelic presence seem to occur most often in moments of heightened awareness -- when everyday life has already been disrupted by some pressing fear or obstacle. Though often cast as rescuers, angels also seem to intervene to remove not the danger but the fear of it. Among the most memorable stories of World War I is the tale of the Angel of Mons. In August 1914 during one of the first battles of the war, British and French troops were retreating from a German assault. As Burnham tells the story, the wounded soldiers were taken to field hospitals...
...direction," says Bill Clinton. "A sustainable economic recovery," asserts Laura D'Andrea Tyson, head of the President's Council of Economic Advisers. "It looks to me like we are launched into a long, long business expansion," says Allen Sinai, chief economist at the investment firm of Lehman Brothers. In everyday language, the recovery is getting to the point where people can feel it in their wallets. And this time it might not fizzle out the way an end-of-1992 surge did. It might -- cross fingers, knock on wood -- continue at a steady pace through next year or beyond...
...into one of two schools. One contends that science writers are simply journalists who happen to cover science. The other maintains that science journalists operate in a slightly different frame of mind from, say, reporters who cover City Hall. Science, they argue, is quantitatively and quantitatively different enough from "everyday" subject matter to merit different reporting strategies...
Raza members, said Gutierrez, "have forgotten what it's like to be in our communities. I want them to teach us, to tell us their frustrations, what they have to face when they go home everyday...