Word: everydayness
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...thorny problem of finding more minorities and women to fill Harvard's chairs. But it is still essential that you make time for undergraduate concerns and put the power of your office behind the reforms you wish to make. Otherwise, you may well get lost in the maze of everyday responsibilities that will undoubtedly take up much of your time. Walk out into the Yard every now and then from your University Hall abode: the undergraduate air could be invigorating...
...Orleans a week ago is the city itself: brooding and flamboyant, raucous and urbane, devout and dissolute. The fair stirs together the razzmatazz of Mardi Gras, the harmony of New Orleans' elegant old buildings and the French-Spanish-African-Italian-Irish-German-Creole-Cajun gumbo gusto of its everyday, every-night street life. With a generous infusion of pavilions and exhibitions from the rest of the U.S. and 24 other nations, the Louisiana World Exposition-to give the $350 million extravaganza its formal name-is the worldliest of World's Fairs...
Since the legal system itself bends, over backwards to taint the credibility of the sexually abused--to a degree spared plaintiffs in non-sex-related crimes--it is no wonder that skepticism pervades out everyday attitudes towards this type of injured body and soul...
...revolution need not be ongoing to have effected change. What we considered yesterday to be outrageous behavior is no longer criticized or even noticed. Indeed, we have embraced the revolution as everyday life...
...together trends that had begun in European thought as far back as the Stoics, but had been first formalized by the Swede, Saussure, at the turn of the 20th century. Usually thought of as a literary study confined to language, Barthes reapplied the technique to the world of everyday things, trying to find meaning in the immediate world, for which there was nothing immedeidately visible. Barthes' approach, notes Jardine, and that of his disciples, was always used as a way of deconstructing the symbols of a dominant group. This "contestatory" approach was first applied to the world of American goods...