Word: everydayness
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...things which can create a new structure of peace in the world. To the extent that I am able to make progress toward that goal, I would very thoroughly enjoy that job. But if you put it in terms of "Do you enjoy the job in terms of the everyday battles?"?no, not particularly. I could do without a lot of that...
...time his philosophy of education was first formally expressed in his doctoral dissertation at the University of Recife in 1959 until his "invitation" to leave Brazil, he was refining and applying his methods of teaching to the enormous problems of illiteracy, poverty, hunger, and oppression that were the everyday existence for the peasants of northeast Brazil. Emanuel de Kadt, in his books Catholic Radicals in Brazil, states that the Metodo Paulo Freire "...was still characterized by potential rather than actual achievements, by promise more than realization." Yet the concrete plans for 1964 were to reach 2 million illiterates. He continued...
...priority programs--because of their broadness--serve more as a statement of NAM's purpose than as an actual everyday organizing too. Disagreements over the programs were often vociferous but were never really expressed along sectarian lines, with the accompanying caucusing and chanting...
...itself, that modest plot cannot fully convey the quinine-flavored humor of the evening. Simon creates an atmosphere of casual cataclysm, an everyday urban purgatory of copelessness from which laughter seems to be released like vapor escaping from the city's manholes...
...sounds like the opening of a Woody Allen movie: a Japanese businessman, togged out in Stetson, chaps and boots, strides into a small West Texas grocery to ask the startled storekeeper if he would please stock fresh squid. Such events, however, have become part of everyday life in the prairie town of San Angelo (pop. 63,884). There, some 30 Japanese executives have adapted to the Texas life-style well enough to make a thriving operation out of an aircraft-assembly plant owned by Mitsubishi Heavy Industries, Japan's fourth largest industrial company (1970 sales: $2.6 billion). Last year...