Word: everydayness
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...annual ration of cloth is enough for two everyday outfits, but not enough for an ao-dai, the ladies' flowing tunic-cum-trousers, or for a winter coat. There is little local transportation except for bicycles. One recent visitor to Hanoi reported that the only nonessential goods he saw for sale were some Chinese-made pingpong balls. Hanoi's beer gardens frequently sell out before closing time. Hanoi Moi recently carried one letter from a cigarette-factory worker who apologized for the number of cigarettes that were "only half full of tobacco," and another from a smoker...
...much more prevalent." People will pay less attention to their looks, he says, because they simply will not have the time or inclination for self-indulgence. "The problems of overpopulation, pollution and so forth are going to intrude in some way on all our lives and change our everyday involvements. Clothes will just not be that important any more...
...prescription: 1) 21 daily combination pills containing synthetic equivalents of the hormones progesterone and estrogen, with the latter in a microscopic dose; 2) sequential pills, which provide tablets of an estrogen alone for 14 to 16 days, followed by five to seven combination tablets. A third variety, the "one-everyday" pill of progestin (progesterone equivalent) only, is being tested but is not yet licensed for U.S. prescription...
...Situations, p. 176) But to know that we are making history all the time is not yet to know how we are making it, day by day, and how we are to live with such knowledge. When Merleau-Ponty reproached Trotsky for an incomplete attention to "the compromises of everyday history," he was in part recording our need to be awakened to "the importance of daily events and action." He wanted philosophy to provide that awakening, but first it was necessary to realize that philosophy
...most notable fact in religion today is that ministers of all denominations are trying, somewhat desperately but with immense energy and imagination, to find new ways to carry God back into the everyday life of society and to make him, in the prevailing cliche of the day, "relevant." This is not primarily a theological movement. Still, important new trends in theology suggest that God may best be met in the co-creation of a more humane society or, internally, in the deepest structures of our own psyches (see box, page 42). As so often in the history of faith, this...