Word: everydayness
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...have been predicted that they would take this line - but that is pre cisely the point. People have been so bemused for so long by the abstractions of official communiques, extremist state ments, political journalism, that they have forgotten the simple fact that real people are trying to live everyday lives in a place that could instantly be turned into a gigantic combat zone. Inevitably they are bound together by a mutual abhorrence of war. The most effective speakers are people who have the great est reason to be bitter: the wives and parents of young men killed on both...
...camera violently. He has adopted strange vantage points; he has had to look for hyper graphic qualities in his subject matter; he has isolated objects in a very unnatural way. The result is a set of pictures which are flat, without any visual Iyricism. Harbutt has photographed everyday buildings people and street scenes, but his pictures deny any three-dimensionality in their subject. There is no depth in the pictures--even a picture of a crowded street looks like the sort of abstraction that one could make by photographing peeling paint on a wall...
...ENTIRETY, Travelog tails to meet the standards of its model, Ulysses, as an existential voyage. Joyce's work succeeded in evoking mythic archetypes from the experience of everyday life by investing that everyday life with all the descriptive richness Joyce could muster in 1000 pages of dense writing; Ulysses is built upon Joyce's talent with the smallest stuff of language just as much as it is upon vision Travelog, however, has no such solid base. The pictures in it just are not good enough. The very process of photography creates enough of a suspension of the real and mystification...
...each course the atmosphere was low-key and congenial and his approach was excellent. With succeeding lectures, my interest became more genuine. To be sure, the experience of taking these courses proved rewarding: they enhanced my ability to perceive--not purely in the academic sense, but with respect to everyday living as well. The zeal and humanness which Professor Isaac radiated was almost unreal and needless to say, greatly appreciated. And isn't that, in itself, sterling testimony to the man's worth in this veritable mecca of learning? Peter J. Kaplan...
...said that a second purpose is to "show the ways in which gay people are constrained everyday" by straight morality, such as an inability to show affection for one another in public. He said he expects straight people to resent not feeling able to wear jeans...