Word: everydayness
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Dates: during 2000-2009
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...glass flowers at the Peabody Museum could not have been crafted with a more deliberate delicacy than the lilting scenes of John McGahern’s new novel By The Lake. The story recounts a year of everyday labors and occasional intrigues in a small village. A meditative eye for the details that color passing moments gives this novel a quiet integrity, unrivaled by works that impatiently resort to plot twists, muddled psychology and politics for their excitement. McGahern’s story recalls that while societies seem to be progressing and deteriorating at a dizzying pace, most people...
Online users started propositioning Lillian for cybersex and she eagerly accepted. “I felt like I could be sexy, whereas in everyday life people wouldn’t have taken me seriously because I was a big nerd,” she says. “I played the role of a raunchy sex goddess but in real life I was a smelly chemistry dork...
...confront Jane about the diary. “I’d look over at her desk and see her typing,” Ashley says, “and then I would read what she wrote after she went to bed. I was distraught.” Everyday life proceeded normally as Jane remained unaware of what was going on; Ashley never signed the guest book...
...report released in January by the Kenyan chapter of Transparency International suggests that small, everyday bribes are just as costly as big-time fraud. Researchers asked more than 1,000 Kenyans how often they were hit up for bribes, how much they paid and whether things were getting worse. Respondents to the Kenyan Urban Bribery Index, as the survey is called, paid around 16 bribes a month, an average of $100 or one-third of respondents' mean monthly income. Most respondents said things were getting worse. The biggest bribe takers, according to the findings, are law-enforcement institutions like...
...She’s here all day, everyday,” Michael J. Palmer, ‘03 said. “I don’t know when she has time to do this. It’s really excellent...