Word: everyday
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...upon row, people leaned forward to catch every word, feverishly scribbling in their notebooks. The mesmerizing drone of the theologian lifted them, trance-like, beyond the everyday world of corporeal men and concrete things. It carried them high, high into the tenuous stratosphere of abstraction, where the earth below could be glimpsed only briefly and dimly, as the ponderous metaphysical clouds parted for a moment, then coalesced in still thicker obscurity. Through the shadowy haze, however, they could sense the mammoth struggles that the voice affirmed were raging all around them. From far off they could sometimes catch the sound...
Good Year Ahead. Last week, vacationing at his small, four-room, co-op apartment at Delray Beach, Fla., Smith said he will now relinquish most of his everyday managing duties, concentrate more on long-range planning and policymaking. Cheered by the stock market's quick snapback and high volume of trading last week (see State of Business), the top man in Wall Street's top brokerage house saw a good year ahead for M.L.P.F. & S. Said he: "Company after company is going to need more money to expand, and they will have to come to Wall Street...
...Easter and the movable Feast Days can be determined for any given year. Below are delightful vignettes of contemporary 16th century life, showing cardplaying in winter, early planting in March, harvest in July and cattle-slaughtering in October. Although a minor art, such miniature scenes are precious records of everyday secular life over the changing seasons. As such, it pushed forth a hardy sprout in succeeding centuries, blossoming into the full-scale landscapes and genre scenes that along with classical allegory and religious painting became the central concern of later artists...
...name was not really Helena but Alice. She was Portuguese, living with her parents in the Brazilian diamond-mining town of Diamantina, and she began to keep her record of everyday happenings in 1893, when she was twelve. In 1942, as Senhora Augusto Mario Caldeira Brant of Rio de Janeiro (her husband twice served as president of the Bank of Brazil), she published her diary in a small edition for friends and family. Famed French Novelist Georges Bernanos saw it and proclaimed it a work of genius. By the time-1952-that U.S. Pulitzer-Prizewinning Poet Elizabeth Bishop went...
...Penfield reasons, his stimulations of the temporal lobe are like a process that is common in everyday life: a flashback of past experience, and an almost instantaneous comparison of the present with previous similar experiences. For this area of the brain, to which no function had been assigned, he proposes the term "interpretive cortex." Its discovery, he suggests, is a step toward explaining what Hippocrates called the brain's power to "distinguish the ugly from the beautiful, the bad from the good, the pleasant from the unpleasant...