Word: everydayness
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Asbestos is used in thousands of everyday products, and roughly a hundred new ones appear on the market each year. Pot holders, ironing board covers, draperies, rugs, movie screens, electrical tape, automobile brake linings, vinyl floor tiles and metal alloys contain asbestos, as do a whole host of plastic articles ranging from frying pan handles to playdough. The asbestos-cement industry is a principal user, employing asbestos in the fabrication of shingles, insulation and plastic board, pipes, roadways, sidewalks, asphalt and almost every other fireproof or high-friction cement product. No satisfactory substitute has yet been discovered...
...chosen by his fellow citizens from their own ranks. He is the electoral survivor of a process unique and uniquely successful among world governments--a process designed to place at the head of this great nation a man of the people--one who knows and shares everyday problems of all Americans, yet has the qualities of leadership to meet the complex challenges of world problems...
Although our historical position lets us see some things more clearly, it keeps us from understanding the emotions and convictions, the anger and fears of 1969, the intensity that made the Strike the most important experience of some people's lives, its texture and flavor and impingement on everyday living. Inasmuch as this supplement is an historical assessment, it required of its writers a sympathy with and understanding for every side in 1969's disputes--a sympathy and understanding we can't feel fully for any side, separated from them by five years...
...really know. Perhaps because the novel calls for a strong narrative power. Narration today has been replaced by the image. The publicized and televised violence of everyday existence, hijacking and all sorts of minor events that used to be a mystery for the novelists in the past have helped to kill the narrative novel. I mean a certain kind of novel with which we are all familiar-going from Balzac to Tolstoy. This sort of narrative novel had already received a blow with the publication of Madame Bovary. Do you know what Alexandre Dumas' reaction was when he read...
...Social change cannot be forced to come about--it comes out of a lot of collected little decisions by people in their everyday lives who finally gain impact," he said...