Word: everydayness
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...Seeking a better gauge than IQ, the Chicago team devised various tests to spot divergents. Instead of asking students to pick "right" answers, the tests ask them to make up alternate endings for fables, write stories suggested by "stimulus" pictures, supply "as many different uses as you can" for everyday objects...
Drawing inspiration from British and Dutch landscapists. the Barbizon painters saw that a landscape did not have to be either historical or "noble." It could be an everyday scene, painted direct. The French revolutions of 1830 and 1848 aided the movement, stirring a pervasive tradition-breaking spirit that weakened the authority of the academicians...
From the start, the Germans tried to fit into everyday life by attending synagogue services, joining local clubs. But the community remained aloof from the strangers for months. The turning point came when calls went out for blood to increase the supplies in the clinic's blood bank. The Germans volunteered with the rest. Since then, collective members have invited Germans into their homes, take them along to domino contests and movie nights in Tel Aviv. Fortnight ago, Israelis watched curiously as one of the Germans sobbed during memorial services for the Jewish victims of Crystal Night.* The murderous...
...transfusion lifted them above the danger level. Early this year, she was put on a regular dosage of cortisone-type hormones. This treatment carried the risk of reducing her resistance to infections. Not surprisingly, Mrs. Roosevelt began to run a fever. Nobody knew what was causing it. The common everyday infections, from common cold and flu to strep and staph, were soon ruled out by bedside observation and lab tests...
...could not help noticing your remark about the common cold. It does seem odd that so little has been done about this everyday but exasperating ailment...