Word: quotidian
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...Practical” takes on a whole new meaning in a residential college setting where the demands of the house master can range from attending the quotidian administrative meetings to remedying the occasional late night crisis...
...keys and a jewelry box found alongside their skeletons in a cave where they hid. "The last people to touch these items before our colleagues in Israel's museums," says Opper, "were the people awaiting Hadrian's onslaught." These humble objects - perfectly preserved in the desert heat - may be quotidian, yet they offer as resonant an insight into Hadrian's world as the exquisitely refined statues that he commissioned to memorialize the love he had lost...
...first it sounds a little nutty, but you might consider drinking with your kids. Incongruously, the way to produce fewer problem drinkers is to create more drinkers overall--that is, to begin to create a culture in which alcohol is not an alluring risk but part of quotidian family life. Of course, that's a mostly European approach to alcohol, but there's reason to think it could work here. And it may be the best way to solve the binge-drinking problem...
...some “unambiguously productive” purpose. People are rarely the subject of Davey’s pieces, with the occasional exception of hands holding a steak bone or feet on a wooden floor. Far more compelling, however, are the photographs that call attention to the quotidian objects that usually go unnoticed. In one pair of prints, a refrigerator decorated with papers and magnets, surrounded by a microwave and other appliance wires, stands next a print of cheap ceiling lights. “Fridge” shows us something we see every day, and “Light?...
...John A. Haigh, the change in name is meant to “maintain the connection to the Harvard name so people will know who we are.” Sure. We wouldn’t want people thinking that you were the Kennedy School of Government at some quotidian university, would we? For shame! But while those feisty agents of change down JFK St. were clawing away at the teeming masses of Kennedy-named impostors, Massachusetts Hall was teaching them—and us—a lesson in the power of glamour.On Dec. 10, President Drew G. Faust...