Word: normale
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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When people notice that a group of minorities are sitting together, they often neglect to mention that there are many more tables with whites seated separately. The all-white tables are "normal", but, for some reason, the all-Black or all-Chicano tables...
...choice to homeschool their children was an unconventional one for Micki and David Colfax, both of whom went through the traditional American public education track. Micki Colfax says they both found the "normal route" of education "rather static," adding that "things have gotten a lot worse in American education since the '40s and '50s, when they attended primary and secondary school...
Wearing the suits instead of the normal casual wear apparently was a tongue-in-cheek response to word that NASA was trying to curb astronauts' penchant for fun. Officials reportedly were annoyed by a televised show two missions ago when the crew floated through the shuttle cabin wearing colorful Hawaiian shirts...
When the Eastern machinists union decided to strike last week, it had all the makings of a 1981 air traffic controllers replay: union strikes, president orders them back to work, union refuses, president fires them, hires new workers, airlines continue normal service...
...inward: "You are forced to the mirror, again and again; psoriasis compels narcissism, if we can suppose a Narcissus who did not like what he saw." One of the hallmarks of his fiction became elaborate celebrations of the status quo. Updike thinks he knows why: "An overvaluation of the normal went with my ailment, a certain idealization of everyone who was not, as I felt myself to be, a monster...