Word: everydayness
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...Everyday we are bombarded with images of the superior man, of the ruling man," McDonald says, "So we just take a step to knock down this image of the ruling man and just take it out of our word...
...this issue is more important than the mere state of the first-year. These problems occur in gasp...Harvard classrooms. I have heard that they extend to everyday speech as well. I propose that we should all alternate the use of male and female references. By switching pronouns throughout a lecture, a professor can't be much more confusing than he (or she) already is, and the rest of us can rest assured that we are all safely in the boundaries of neutrality when we speak to one another. So what if we don't understand a word...
...Teddy's explosive discoveries in the second act. Rodriguez turns a brilliant performance as Billy's friend from the asylum, whose mercurial energy and neurotic intensity combine with keen wit and perception. As Billy's lawyer in this card-game-turned-trial, Teddy embodies the insanity of the everyday as much as he exposes...
...most kinetic, infectious and musically shrewd performances in memory. His Holly impersonation is dead-on, but even theatergoers who never saw or heard the original are likely to be won over by his galvanic confidence, charm and sweetness. Here are some of the prettiest melodies of the 1950s, from Everyday and Peggy Sue to That'll Be the Day, rendered with the authentic simplicity of a garage band. They are songs about love, about a boy meeting a girl or hoping to, and they leave audiences wishing their appeal did not seem so nostalgic, so suggestive of bygone, trusting times...
BEYOND violence and disease, there is discrimination--the everyday fear and exclusion all gays, Lesbians and bisexuals feel. The idea that we must be "tolerated" is just part of this discrimination. It is also entrenched in the legal system, where we are not even tolerated...