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With all the lofty rhetoric floating around the annual Nobel Prize announcements, it's easy to lose sight of a simple truth: The laureates win because they've done something that has changed our everyday lives (or has the potential to), often in surprisingly simple ways. Here's our guide to the latest crop of prizewinners, and what they're really being lauded...
Overcrowding has become so severe that teachers say it interferes with everyday learning and learning...
...during and after the 1970s, the ones he is most remembered for-I thought, quite succinctly, "Cute!" At the time, it seemed to me that Guston's motley crew of regular characters-pointy, cone-headed creatures with endearing toaster-slit eyes, big cycloptic heads, crudely drawn shoes and other everyday paraphernalia-operated in and seemed privy to a very special world, impervious to the scrutiny of cynical adult types. The muteness of these things held a sort of infinite communicability and possibility within themselves; above all, they didn't seem symbolic, didn't seem to have the onus...
...vehement disapproval was occasioned not only by the "repulsive" figurative nature of these new paintings, but their frank politics as well. In addition to a deep appreciation for the everyday object, Guston was also profoundly aware of political and social upheaval, wars, famines, epidemics-not simply in his own time but throughout history-and introduced into his unique pictorialism figurative representations of, among other things, the Ku Klux Klan. As a Jewish-born man who changed his name from Goldstein in his twenties and who experienced first-hand the brutality and violence of the Klan, Guston felt acutely the very...
...journal dealt with everyday life, describing impressions of nature, dinner with friends and bouts of insomnia, among other topics...