Word: everyday
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...were thinking and (especially) feeling." Rowse attributes this partly to Sir Winston's breeding: the "very strength of the two natures mixed in him, the self-willed English aristocrat and the equally self-willed primitive American" combined to make him greater as a national savior than as an everyday politician. This view of human character as a sort of neatly mixed blood pudding need not be taken too seriously by Author Rowse's primitive U.S. readers, who will find this hearty, bouncing chronicle a pleasant change from more subtle, sophisticated works of history...
...breathe," wrote President Dwight Eisenhower as he prepared his speech celebrating the first U.S. Law Day this week. "People take it for granted and are unaware of it-until they are deprived of it. The clearest way to show what the rule of law means to us in everyday life is to recall what has happened where there is no rule of law1. The dread knock on the door in the middle of the night...
...Choreographer Igor Moiseyev, 52, onetime soloist and ballet master at the Bolshoi, is only partially concerned with true folk dancing. In the company's history of 160 works are a generous sprinkling of what Moiseyev calls "popular ballets"-works that express contemporary themes in the casual movements of everyday life, a fusion reminiscent of the effect U.S. Choreographer Jerome Robbins achieves in such works as Fancy Free. Even in the straight folk dances Choreographer Moiseyev prunes and shapes his material to gain dramatic continuity and a clearly defined dance line. Says he: "We do not merely photograph...
...wish to assure you that it is not an everyday sight-"a tight-lipped child followed by other children shrilly jeering, 'Your father's a dirty scab...
...long, authoritative look at the city around it, reported its findings in a seven-part analysis of the street-gang cancer and the damage that it produces. The series, written by Harrison E. Salisbury, for five years the Times's Moscow correspondent, dramatized by understatement the grim, everyday facts of warfare on the streets of the big city...