Word: everydayness
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...over the U.S. In the age of talk shows, tape recorders, telephonitis and declining educational standards, the clearly written word is swiftly becoming a lost art. The many new courses attempting to correct that drift are concerned not with "creative" writing but with something almost as rare: clear, usable, everyday prose...
...going to disappear. But after May 18, this exhibit isn't going to happen again. Stuart Cary Welch kind of sniffles when he talks about this, but then he smiles and hands you one of the "Wonders of the Age" buttons he has made. It's not everyday that you can see paintings that, as Welch says, "make the French impressionists look like wallpaper...
...whether it's all been seen on some stage before. His friends have to be Holvard Solness and Miss Julies and when they can't, when he sees them as "cardboard characters" and "cartoons," and their "soap talk" as unsuitable dialogue, he abandons them, forgetting that the stuff of everyday life must be, by definition, commonplace. Terry wants to live as the artist of the new and the hero of the new, and when he can'the hardly wants to live at all. As the curtain falls Terry is very close to dead...
...blurry. The rest is just bits and pieces. All this leaves a sizable hole in the middle of the picture. If you do not fairly represent an artist's gifts his reason for living, what is the point of detaining the audience with the ordinariness of his everyday life? Tragic as his problems finally became, they could have happened to anybody, where as a Nijinsky happens perhaps once in a century. It is a shame not to concentrate on what was unique about his genius...
...tanker Concho chugged into the harbor of Chelsea, Mass., late last month carrying 8.4 million gallons of heating oil. An everyday occurrence, with one important exception: the fuel on board cost only 47? per gal., or about two-thirds the normal 75?-per-gal. wholesale price. The importer was the nonprofit Citizens Energy Corp. (CEC), headed by Joseph P. Kennedy II, 27, eldest son of late Senator Robert Kennedy. A vociferous critic of the energy firms' "greed," the young Kennedy was out to prove that oil companies were ripping off the public...