Word: everydayness
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...date in the evolving process. Student input gives reason to hope that a decade from now, undergraduates may be spared the horrors of the Core as we know it, of advisers we never see and of giant lecture halls filled to capacity. Innovations we propose, to meet our everyday needs, should be the basis for a revitalized curriculum. Undergraduate priorities should be placed side by side with Harvard’s research goals...
Newmark's personal touch is part of the appeal. A self-professed nerd who wore plastic pocket protectors and thick black glasses in high school, Newmark insists that he's not out to get rich but to create a place "where people can get everyday stuff done." He likes to play practical jokes, such as issuing a press release on April Fool's Day stating that there was, in fact, no Craig. And he's proudest of the "random acts of kindness" he often sees on the site, such as the woman who offered her vacuum cleaner to a public...
...Days Like These," the gallery's second Triennial Exhibition of Contemporary British Art, "takes the temperature" of the last three years, says co-curator Judith Nesbitt. And she senses some powerful currents in the work of artists of all ages and career stages, one being "the interrogation of the everyday." As well as Ataman's flower fanatic and Yokomizo's Strangers, there is Rachel Whiteread's plaster casting of the inside of a flat and the space under a staircase. Margaret Barron paints tiny cityscapes on adhesive tape that are stuck on handy surfaces somewhere near the actual locations. Several...
...Essentially it was an exaggerated version of our everyday experience: we were in an unusual position in an unusual place for women to be,” writes classmate Alice Pasachoff Wegman, who became an environmental lawyer...
Cohen said Rawls’pleasant manner around those who knew him seemed rooted in his belief that moral and political philosophy should have practical value in everyday life...