Word: everydayness
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...like to think that I have a truly fascinating job; I monitor the aggregate online behavior of over 10 million Internet users everyday. I can see collectively what web sites people visit and what search terms they use; through Google, Yahoo! Search and other search engines, I have a view into our collective thoughts. You won't be shocked to hear that, come January, we're thinking thin...
...small golden jackal, nipping at the rump of a hyena twice its size, chases the intruder from its territory. Two young lions tear into a still struggling buffalo calf. Such violent scenes are everyday rhythms Among Predators and Prey (Sierra Club Books; 224 pages; $35), the reflections of Wildlife Photographer Hugo van Lawick. The author has a long acquaintance with rough nature: he has lived with East Africa's wild animals for a quarter-century part of the time among chimpanzees with his former wife Jane Goodall. Van Lawick's knowledgeable narrative recalls a life that included a stint covering...
...books, he wrote and said things he could not have written or said in a homeland under Soviet control, providing evocative, lyrical descriptions of everyday triumphs and failures. He examined and exposed bravery and cowardice, in others and in himself. He dissected tyrannies large and small, in the high offices where power is held and guarded, and on the street, in the slums, and on the road, where gestures of kindness and casual acts of cruelty constantly occur. To my mind, Another of Day of Life and Shah of Shahs, about the mechanics of the Islamic revolution in Iran...
...moral cores aside, it was not the Daily Princetonian which turned an everyday admissions issue into a racial issue. Rather, it was Jian Li who did that. The satire, in case anyone didn’t notice, was targeted against his competitive egotism, which made race an issue to suit his advantage. Li’s target couldn’t have been more unfair—an enlightened institution, that no matter its past, today mostly strives towards justice. That is what was being lampooned, not Asian Americans in general...
...crash, after a fashion. In the five months since parts of her brain had been crushed, she could open her eyes but didn't respond to sights, sounds or jabs. In the jargon of neurology, she was judged to be in a persistent vegetative state. In crueler everyday language, she was a vegetable...