Word: everydayness
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Speaking before a crowd of several hundred, Rooney, who is best known for his whimsical commentaries about everyday life on "60 Minutes," said, "What bothers me most as a journalist is the great American preference for not facing the truth...
...that frenzied dance of the atoms. In their work, they used one of the more esoteric tools of 20th century science: quantum mechanics, a mathematical way of looking at the paradoxically dual nature of matter, whose smallest components sometimes behave like waves, sometimes like particles. But their results have everyday importance, for example, in the development of techniques for measuring pollution and the creation of new drugs and chemicals...
...seem younger, feel healthier and slimmer, the passion for muscularity reverberates in the country's collective unconscious. More than waistlines may be getting leaner. In fact, the glorification of the body, the absorption with physical beauty, the passion for youthfulness and health that are now part of everyday American life at home and on the job, are transforming the nation's character, like...
...found a subject that badly needs debunking. Just because Wolfe didn't like modern painting doesn't mean there is anything wrong with it; paintings have no function but to provoke and entertain, and that is the province of personal taste. But architecture is different. It affects us everyday, and when it fails us, our lives are the poorer for it. And, sayeth the prophet Wolfe with characteristic grace and enthusiasm, architecture has failed us on a grand scale...
...attitudes toward such behavior-and the reactions of others. It is also a medium of self-disclosure, a way of dramatizing one's own feelings about someone else's behavior, a way of asserting what we think acceptable or unacceptable. In a book called The Moralities of Everyday Life, to be published early next year, Psychologists John Sabini and Maury Silver write that "gossip brings ethics home by introducing abstract morality to the mundane...