Word: everydayness
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...advent of mass communications technology changed speechmaking in another way. Before mechanical reproduction, few reporters could truly record a speech verbatim; thus, the hesitations and minor lapses of grammar that characterize everyday speech were never seen by the newspaper audience...
...Ghaida plans to return to the West Bank this summer to work with a human rights groups on an Isabella Briggs Travelling Fellowship. She hopes both to play an active role in the movement to end the occupation and to come closer to everyday Palestinians...
...years ago, Minter helped found an organization to do just that. The result was Actively Working Against Racism and Ethnocentrism (AWARE), a program dedicated to the same ideal of helping students better conquer racial and cultural obstacles in everyday life...
Almost every page of the old wife's tale is lit up with the everyday magic of a world in which birds can sound like women crying and sweaters are knit in the memory of spider webs. Yet all the storybook marvels are grounded in a survivor's vinegar wit ("In Nanking, snow is like a high-level official -- doesn't come too often, doesn't stay too long"). And in front of the watercolor backdrops are horrors pitiless enough to mount a powerful indictment against a world in which women were taught that love means always having...
...Bible banishes words, like whom, that are dying out in everyday American speech, as well as theological favorites, like righteousness. Even grace, the term that launched Luther's Reformation, has been replaced with the bland "kindness." The graceless Bible is also as genderless as possible. For all that, the Bible society claims that the Good Book's "majesty and poetry" have survived...