Word: everydayness
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...with, though, are those in the Freshmen Dean's Office, who are responsible for choosing your roommates, scheduling freshman week, and for making the year a little bit easier. You may also meet the Dean of the College, Charles P. Whitlock, the man in the hierarchy who oils the everyday creaks of the school...
...English language in the U.S., Senior Writer Lance Morrow spent two months off and on compiling examples of mangled prose from such varied sources as the Congressional Record, high school compositions and sociological journals. Morrow also kept a notebook - which swelled to 60 pages - of tortured usages found in everyday reading, television watching and conversation. In some ways, it was a chastening exercise. Morrow found that he frequently sinned, most often in using careless conversational "filler" phrases like "you know" and "well, ah." Colleagues who have chatted with him recently say that his speaking style is, ah, much improved...
...Bauhaus master teachers' prints which are displayed here, enable you to understand inspiration that united the other diverse artists. Even in its early, turbulent years. Bauhaus ideals were evolving--ideals of exhaustive perceptual study coupled with artistic creativity, art combined with craft, superior industrial design integrated into everyday life, and universal communication through common functional terms. Despite dogmas and manifestoes, the freedom and complexity of Bauhaus work can be seen in Paul Klee's Bauhaus work, which combines spontaneity and discipline. klee's spidery sketches are whimsical, ironic and sometimes ridiculous. They are supported by intricate color grids. Following Groplus...
...country is like a Gulh'ver permanently tied down by not one but two armies of officials belonging to the separate state and Communist Party bureaucracies. In everyday life a Soviet citizen needs written permission for everything, from changing a job or apartment to getting a hotel room. Industry and agriculture are similarly stifled. Professional middlemen and grafters, adept at short-cutting the paper work and expediting anything from steel supplies to beefsteak, flourish illegally in the crevices of this creaking structure. But for most Soviet citizens there is no short cut through the numbing, frustrating maze of controls...
Wilder's is essentially an airbrushed vision of life. The closest Our Town comes to the problem of evil is a tipsy choirmaster-organist. Insofar as Wilder sought to suggest the sublime in the commonplace, he failed; but in placing the stamp of value and continuity on everyday life, he succeeded. He celebrates the cycle of growing up, falling in love, marrying, giving birth and suffering death with all its attendant joys and sorrows...