Word: everydayness
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...only politicians and activists who experience cognitive dissonance on indecency--so do everyday citizens. They want protection from smut yet don't use the V chip. They talk about competing with pop culture to parent their children yet give kids TVs and computers in their bedrooms. They rail against sex and violence in entertainment, yet--as a group, anyway--reward it and punish the alternatives. The most wholesome new network show of last fall was CBS's Clubhouse, a sweet drama about a teenage bat boy for a baseball team, executive-produced by Mel (The Passion of the Christ) Gibson...
...First, schools that practice, rather than simply espouse, participatory democracy do not assume that a few individuals make the decisions while the others in the school community study physics, teach classes, clean floors, or serve meals. If democracy entails sharing in the making of history or decision-making through everyday life, rather than when an election rolls around, then schools need to be democratized so that all a school’s participants—including students, teachers, and administrators, but also custodians, clerical workers, and cafeteria workers—participate together, routinely in school decision-making large and small...
Though her days of FM fame have passed, Faulkner-Bond still gets attention. She nonchalantly mentions that she has been approached several times in the Square by a modeling agent—not an everyday occurrence for most Harvard students...
Stone drew on several personal experiences as she urged her listeners to continually celebrate humanity in their everyday lives, and to look within themselves for love and understanding...
...said, “Nikki Giovanni’s speech was very thought-provoking, very clever. She spent a lot of time bringing out the depth of black history and the legacy of slavery. She was able to draw remarkable parallels between what many of us experience in our everyday lives and temporary policy issues on a larger scale...