Word: everydayness
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...Snapshot crop their images; incongruities are as important as congruities. In one of the essays which stud the book, Tod Papageorge writes of his efforts to capture "superficialities." He wants to reveal truths not by grabbing moments of surpassing profundity, but through moments representative of the experience of everyday life. When this sensibility turns its attention to humanity, a side strikingly different from that examined by previous art is revealed...
...supplies the airlift brings into Phnom Pehn everyday are the only legs Lon Nol has to stand on. Without the ammunition, the army would have to surrender. Without the rice, the refugees would starve, as some are doing now, Lon Nol would be forced to fice to avoid execution, and we would have gained nothing. Even with the aid, as Defense Secretary Schlesinger admitted, we can only hope to preserve the status quo. The administration indicates it is hoping to get just enough money to last until the rainy season starts in June, hoping the Khmer will then agree...
...rent him space, how he did everything on a shoestring and by himself, and how the place had grown unexpectedly from a tiny operation into an instant success--a business with 25 workers. And how, with so much of himself invested in it, he refused huge sums of money everyday from people who wanted to buy the store or the name and start franchises of the business...
...work it out together, avoiding a wage cut by raising prices. Things settled back down to normal, with Steve apologizing to this day for precipitating the crisis. He was right when he wrote the complaining customer that Steve's Ice Cream was not your everyday enterprise, despite the all-too American success story behind it. The priorities of the place are off: Steve apologizer to the workers and lets the obnoxious customers have it. Which makes it a special place to work. Long live the chocolate chip...
When mathematicians speak of the "elegance" of a proof, they do not mean decorative grace notes; they mean the kind of succinct, one-pointed blow that undercuts one's expectations of complexity. In that sense, what Oka calls "these utilitarian wrappings, these crystallizations of everyday wisdom" are elegant indeed. Problem: to pack one dried salt yellowtail in straw so that it can be unwrapped frugally and eaten over a period of time. It must keep up to six months, so some air must get to it but flies must not. The answer in Ishikawa prefecture is to sheathe...