Word: everydayness
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...worse, if Solzhenitsyn cannot be legendary, he cannot be one of the people either. His struggle is too far from our everyday lives. His example, if you are responsive to it, is one to respect from a distance, not one you can emulate...
...heroes are those who flatter us uncritically, who make us feel better by doing the work of liberation for us. They periodically awaken the sympathy which we use to cover for our inactivity. The press uses heroism to mean sensationalism, grandstanding. Real heroism lies in the courage of everyday life which some people find to rebuild this world despite the obstacles. Though no paper covered it, the heroism in the woman's response to the addict is the only cure to the fear in the younger girl's face...
...trying to measure the nation's progress - or lack of it - the Federal Government has always paid more attention to the quantity of economic growth than to the quality of everyday life. In an attempt to gauge that quality, the Office of Management and Bud get is releasing this week the first Social Indicators report. With a wealth of statistics and charts, the 258-page, $7.80 paperback book shows the fairly recent changes - for better or worse - in American housing, employment, life and death rates, public safety, education and leisure-time pursuits...
...crater begins to rise sharply. The narrow sidestreets here are lined with the old, deteriorating shops and grocery stores owned by the mestizos (people of mixed white and Indian blood). Most of the real activity, however, takes place not in these dusty little buildings, but in the streets themselves. Everyday the Indian peasants, who live higher up in the poorer sections of the city, make the long, strenuous climb down into this commercial sector, where they spread their small supply of goods or produce out in front of them on the uneven stones of the streets. As the dark early...
...Freshman Council is reluctant to do anything because it realizes the people who live up at Radcliffe and who would have to walk up there for lunch everyday would be very upset," she said...