Word: everydayness
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...answer was simple. "I feel I'm there just by writing and by impression. I can see Mexico better from afar, from Baker Library in Dartmouth College, while if I were in Mexico having to wrestle with all the terrible problems of everyday life, it'd be too difficult to write. And I must write...
While the inclusion of Lenin in everyday life in a sense politicizes everything, in fact, the Soviet people are very apolitical. They feel that they cannot influence political decisions in their own country and they assume that people abroad find their governments similarly unresponsive to their political wishes. While they realize that life elsewhere is generally "freer" than in the Soviet Union, they are highly influenced by propaganda which tells them that in the West crime is so rampant that merely being on the street is an invitation to murder. To a Russian the very term "freedom" implies a perjorative...
...world, those who must confront daily landlord-tenant situations, bill payments, insurance claims, and other harsh realities which entail numerous rip-off possibilities. The Phillips Brooks House small claims committee, operating out of Roxbury's municipal courthouse small claims advisory service, provides a campus link to the world of everyday consumer problems, and a chance for students to help combat them. Emily Skoler '82, last year's PBH small claims president, describes small claims as "a people's court, for consumers to take grudges against other consumers and businesses both," adding that "we do everything from giving advice to hand...
...fare of a small claims court. The restriction of payments to monetary (as opposed to equity) payments, limited to $500, exclude more serious cases of life and death or multi-digit law suits with multi-digit lawyer fees. Small claims provides a service to mete out justice in the everyday affairs of the consumer, and for a small fee ($5) anyone can bring forth his or her grievance. As for the hapless student ripped off by the tennis placement agency, she never got justice, but if she had tried a few of the alternatives, she might be ahead today...
...majority of white members of the vaunted Harvard community, these troubles seem far from affecting their everyday lives. Rather than rally around the cause of minority students, white students clamor for longer library hours. The present situation and the insensitivity of white students would be absurd if it weren't so sad and insidious: the signs of the times indicate that avowed liberals are more interested in their private good than in the good of the community. The prevalent attitude constitutes not so much racism as a disregard for minority issues. As long as the majority of students and faculty...