Word: everydayness
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Humming pipes and sweating workmen are the everyday reality of the tunnels. But the fantastic stories upperclassmen pass on to freshmen, like many Harvard legends, also have some basis in fact. Administrators never fled oncoming legions of protesters through the tunnels, but when students closed University Hall for a day last spring, the tunnels came into play. Dean Fox recalls that Harvard police used the tunnels to enter the building, while hordes of protesters sat unknowingly on the steps, blocking above ground entrances...
...predictability. Cheever does not often introduce direct trappings of the supernatural; The Enormous Radio and The Swimmer violate physical laws, and a woman in The Music Teacher acts suspiciously like a real witch. But an aura of wonder bathes even those stories most absorbed in everyday details...
...lopsided presentation of the two roles of Susan and Ann gives Mayron more of the spotlight, but at the expense of an involving plot. Weill's documentary style uses everyday situations to reveal changes in the attitudes of the characters. Susan, however, holds the screen alone for so much of the film and so dominates it even when Ann appears that the film seems to be a celluloid diary of Susan's life as a young woman in New York. It's true to the city, and offers some well executed cameo roles of gallery owners and Soho artistes...
Westminster still controls most important functions, notably the assignment of families to public housing units, which was a major issue in the civil rights campaign. But even with its limited jurisdiction, the council has to reach agreement on such everyday civic responsibilities as park maintenance and refuse collection. It has also headed off some potentially explosive political problems. Last March, for example, the Irish Independence Party, a Catholic group, began pressuring to have the precolonial "Derry" reinstated as the city's official name, a move certain to have aroused widespread Protestant hostility. The council, guided by the SDLP, voted...
...knows that better than Assad's 30,000 troops, who at a cost of $3 million a day provide the bulwark of the Arab peace-keeping force inside Lebanon. In a land where there are more guns than people, violence and bloodshed are always near, ambush and assassination everyday occurrences. But without the Syrian presence the violence would, in all likelihood, be even more brutally unconfined...