Word: everydayness
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...truth, the everyday military experience is not likely to change much after the ban is lifted. Just because being gay will no longer be grounds for expulsion does not mean that every gay in the military will come out of the closet. Some will fear harassment; some will simply prefer discretion, the way gay civilians generally do. In all likelihood the vast majority of gays in uniform will keep their sexuality largely private. They will simply stop living in fear that someone may find out and cost them their future. Those who might wish to be flamboyant or confrontational would...
...Keep an open mind. Don't assume that someone who's casually dressed in everyday life won't be worth cultivating. Never underestimate the redemptive and transforming power of formal wear--even if in real life, the wearer is sartorially challenged...
...structure of everyday life has been destroyed. Schools have been reconfigured to match an alien western system; communist youth organizations have been disbanded; many of the clubs that were a standard feature of young people's lives have been closed. Says a social worker: "Kids hang out in the street all day, and eventually they have to find something to do -- bashing foreigners is the sport they choose...
...Vatican is officially silent on the latest disputes, which it considers a peculiarly Western phenomenon. But a prelate explains that Rome does not want to "blanket everything in the course of everyday life with the charge of sexism." As another Vatican official sees it, sin is concrete, premeditated action, not an ideology: "Americans, under the influence of the feminist community, wanted a broader definition, that merely thinking of women as different from men is sinful." Catholicism, the prelate maintains, "is defining and protecting the value of the feminine -- not the feminist -- in an age when it is under assault...
...university would dearly love to have aphilosopher-king type of leader who can charmmoney out of trees and represent the intellectuallife of a university," Matzke said. "I think thecommunity would like to have someone who's verycomfortable being a part of the community, engagedin its everyday life...