Word: everydayness
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...college student, Obama road tested black rage, but it was never a very good fit. There was none of the crippling psychological legacy of slavery in his family's past. He was African and American, as opposed to African American, although he certainly endured the casual cruelties of everyday life--in the new book, he speaks of white people mistaking him for a valet-parking attendant--that are visited upon nonwhites in America. "I had to reconcile a lot of different threads growing up--race, class," he told me. "For example, I was going to a fancy prep school...
...would say that raising the price doesn’t affect many Harvard students, but it will probably be a big deal for people who work minimum wage and take the T everyday,” she said...
...comedy. “I think people are attracted to truth in a performer,” he said. He realizes that he is “living the dream,” and enjoying it and trying to make the most out of it everyday. He just hopes his fans will stick with him. “I want to be around thirty, forty, fifty years from now,” he said. —Staff writer Reva P. Minkoff can be reached at rminkoff@fas.harvard.edu...
...much happens”—that is, the type that’s difficult to synopsize—but, unlike the pleasantly rambling street philosophers who populate Richard Linklater’s films, Bujalski’s characters speak with the faltering cadence of everyday life.It evokes cinema verite, populated by characters who continue to exist even after the few moments they spend on-screen. There is a veneer of calmness that belies a deep anxiety expressed in the jittery camerawork. As in everyday interactions, the import of the film lies in its subtler implications. Bujalski?...
Unlike secondary schools, institutes of higher education are not designed to provide their students with the basic knowledge for everyday life. If the federal government feels that young Americans are being minted with bachelor’s degrees without basic literacy and quantitative skills, it should perhaps reconsider its massive funding cuts to school districts across the country before suggesting that colleges take up the slack. Colleges, instead, are charged with cultivating broad understandings of the world and producing citizens who are productive and curious members of our society. Little of this, however, can be tracked by an expensive...