Word: everydayness
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...more often, Salter's poems have a certain freshness, using everyday occurences as gateways to show the reader paths of ideas he never would guessed at. At one point, she hears children playing the game Marco Polo and speaks of the sounds as "heightened with the importance of the half-understood." Salter's poems make us feel that everything around us is only half-understood, that everything has depths. She does not explore all these depths, but simply shows a bit of what she sees behind these objects, what they make her think of. In this way, she heightens...
...more often, Salter's poems have a certain freshness, using everyday occurences as gateways to show the reader paths of ideas he never would guessed at. At one point, she hears children playing the game Marco Polo and speaks of the sounds as "heightened with the importance of the half-understood." Salter's poems make us feel that everything around us is only half-understood, that everything has depths. She does not explore all these depths, but simply shows a bit of what she sees behind these objects, what they make her think of. In this way, she heightens...
Certainly Monk is not the first to deem this ground holy, as any number of euphoric pre-frosh wandering around last weekend demonstrated. But one of the hallmarks of the performance was Monk's uncanny ability to infuse the everyday with a simple, unadorned spirituality. The Service, according to Monk's literature, "celebrates the universal quest for spirituality" with a mixture of seemingly simple choral chants, organ music, processionals and poems that span both history and religion. With the combination of these differing elements Monk successfully avoids the always enticing "universal answer for spirituality" so popular with televangalists...
...famous scandal. Dick is playing for laughs: portraying the key Watergate figures are such comedians as Jim Bruer and Will Ferrel of Saturday Night Live and Dave Foley of Newsradio. Director and co-writer Fleming has said the film will also focus quite a bit on the everyday lives of its teenage heroines. Clearly, then, he hopes to appeal to both the young WB set and to adults who remember Watergate first-hand...
...because it draws attention away from one of the genuine causes of rape: society's glorification of both violence and consequence-free sex. When an overwhelming percentage of movies, songs, advertisements, books, etc. glorify both non-monogamous sexual relationships and violence, is it a surprise that rape is an everyday occurrence? Is it a surprise that rape happens at Harvard when a large percentage of campus organizations use sexual innuendo to promote their events...