Word: everydayness
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...just that critics miss the mark when analyzing his work. "They're not interested in any of the early stuff we all love," North explains, "like The Tennis Court Oath." The 1962 collection presents a mishmash of generally incomprehensible image fragments intended to reflect the experience of everyday consciousness. "Harold Bloom sort of dismissed The Tennis Court Oath as John getting through to the real stuff that Harold Bloom can understand. I think it's fair to say that, as poets, we don't really think about critics. We assume from the start that there are certain people that will...
EVOLUTION OF A WELL-KNOWN INVENTION Everyday objects seldom spring fully formed into the world. They evolve, sometimes slowly, over centuries. Take the timepiece...
History books already include passages about Johnson's success as an African-American inventor, showing his work next to the everyday inventions of other black scientists and engineers who are relative unknowns: the man who invented refrigerated trucks, the woman who developed a machine for hair permanents or the man who patented the automatic traffic signal. Officials from the Patent Office, which reports that only 6% of patent applications come from blacks, hail Johnson as a role model and cite his Super Soaker to capture the imagination of schoolchildren...
Weiner is one of the elite minority of students who keep their own cars at Harvard. They suffer the everyday hassles of car ownership: expensive parking permits and minimal curbside space, unpredictable traffic and fearless pedestrians, even too-close encounters with wild animals...
...study classical music because I love it, but we all know that it occupies an increasingly smaller part of the everyday attention span. I hope that's a temporary thing. I hope it comes back, like natural fibers and vegetarian diets. I'm going to wait it out. I am interested in making people involved in actively engaging music, supporting the presence of music and musicians in their world. Ultimately, I want people to realize how lucky they are to be alive on a planet that has such wonderful music past, present and future...