Word: everydayness
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...that. Then attention is automatically diverted from our own personality." The cultural aim of these reductions and renunciations? In four words: to change the world. To a very small extent, the Stijl group succeeded in this, since its theory of design helped banish ornament from all objects of everyday use, egg-cups to architecture...
...Social Relations concentrator, Gunnoe continued to play lacrosse for Baltimore-and Boston-area clubs, after he hung up his Crimson jersey. A Knee injury inflicted during a 1965 rugby match forced him to curb his activity, but Gunnoe still manages to run or swim nearly everyday...
...never short for business. Each day, a cluster of grizzled old guys huddled around one corner of the counter, nurturing their pints and carrying on what appeared to be an endlessly repeating discussion of welter weight boxing. And at a table in the back, two small mailmen sat down everyday, without fail, and quietly drained a pair of enormous pitchers...
...most Americans, the Federal Reserve System, a mysterious world of money supply and discount rates, and the policies of its chairman, Paul Volcker, seem somewhat removed from everyday life. As TIME'S cover story this week makes clear, however, "Volckernomics," the Federal Reserve's anti-inflation policy, has resulted in unpredictable interest rates that affect everyone. Explaining the intricacies of monetary policy has been part of the job of Washington Correspondent David Beckwith, who helps report national economics for TIME. Says Beckwith: "Economics, Reaganomics and Volckernomics are to the early 1980s what Watergate was to the early 1970s...
...with a city that for 50 years had based its culture on spending more and more of the taxpayers' money. Her husband came to slow the trend. Nancy Reagan was judged harshly by some lingering partisans of the counterculture: the devoted wife was somehow suspect, the pursuit of everyday excellence often judged a waste of energy, and mediocrity celebrated in dress, manners and mind. Lace butterflies can get crushed. She almost...