Word: everydayness
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...What concerns me is the lack of care at Harvard for politics in our backyard—the politics of everyday life that defines engaged citizens. This type of work lacks the sexiness of “saving the world” ideals, yet is arguably just as important in developing a sense of participation in public life and ending the disengaged apathy that Obama may have been referring...
...hurricane of unusually high intensity—a storm that they were not expecting. The connection between these two groups of events may seem tenuous at first, but in our globalized age, the actions we take at Harvard can have direct effects around the planet. Many of our everyday habits—from charging our laptops and cell phones to eating industrially-produced food in the dining halls to tossing out our trash (which goes via train to a landfill in South Carolina)—result in the emission of greenhouse gases. In aggregate, these emissions help cause...
...that could change their life.” The performance aimed to publicize the upcoming launch of SPINALpedia, a Web site for spinal cord injury victims created by Brittany J. Martin ’08. The site plans to show videos of paraplegics and quadriplegics demonstrating how they perform everyday tasks. “My goal was to create a support resource that uses the power of people’s injuries to motivate people with new injuries to adapt their lives,” Martin said. SPINALpedia is being developed by Martin and two other Harvard students, Elizabeth...
...more unified national style. The last room in the exhibit features still-life paintings, an “avant-garde” movement in Spanish art that began toward the end of Philip’s reign. “Bodegón” paintings depicting scenes of everyday life were the first of their kind to show inanimate objects such as flowers and vegetables as independent subjects. While still-life paintings today are considered anything but avant-garde, the exhibit manages to convey how the development of this genre was innovative in its time...
...everyday matters: Janek came by this afternoon. We had to sit in the kitchen ... I told him that I had given away all my photographs. He got very upset. We were joking around; we spoke about "Nica and the gang." While we were talking he suddenly blurted out he'd like it very much if he could kiss me. I said "maybe" and continued the conversation. He was a bit confused; he thought I was Tusia or Hala Zelinger. I would have allowed [myself] to be kissed only by the person I loved, and I feel indifferent towards...