Word: everydayness
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...dozens of students coming in everyday to get catalogs, complaining that they neverarrived at home; that's not supposed to happen.And [the students] do seem to be overwhelminglyfrom the Northeast...
...into the heroic tracking of other people's demons in an endless action-adventure serial. But movies don't have to be only about the pursuit of a one-armed man. They can also be about chasing the dragon tail of filial responsibility -- isn't that a form of everyday heroism? The Mexican hit Like Water for Chocolate proved that American audiences can respond to stories about love and marriage, food and family. The Joy Luck Club and The Wedding Banquet display this same wisdom: that we never stop being our parents' children, and they never stop being ours...
Larkin made a life's work of offering the unfashionable alternative -- joking about it but meaning it too. His verse, unlike Hughes', was resolutely un-modernist; he clung to the notion that poems should be clearly written in everyday language and should avoid posturing and pretension at all costs -- though, in his hands, that left plenty of room for craft and eloquence. He steered clear of London and the literary life, spending his career as a librarian in provincial cities. Formidably shy, he never married, remaining deeply attached to a burdensome mother until her death at 91, when...
These interviews, alas, seem rather stiff and dutiful. Mahoney's impressions of everyday life, by contrast, are as bracing as May mornings in Corofin, the West Clare town where she lived alone in a darkling castle worthy of the Addams family. She is puzzled by the chronic lateness of the Irish, for whom a 7 o'clock appointment can mean any time at all. She delights in their colorful nicknames -- Mickey the Bridge for a man who lives near one. Irish men are often regular churchgoers, she notes, even though they might lurch into the pews for a Saturday-evening...
...Tietz again, the caseworker told Bob that his son's symptoms were "not severe enough" to remedicate him. Tietz asked Bob to write him a letter. The Allers did, saying, "Our understanding was that there was a safety net of medication available whenever Greg exhibited serious symptoms that impaired everyday behavior." The Allers then met with Nuechterlein and Tietz, and they say they were told Greg's behavior could not yet be called a relapse. It was merely a mood fluctuation and temporary...