Word: everydayness
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Author Carl Solberg, a former associate editor of TIME and a teacher of history and journalism at Columbia, has written the first concise history of the U.S. roughly from 1947 to 1967. He deals to some extent with the textures of everyday living-the rush to the suburbs and the rise of the barbecue pit, James Dean fan clubs and bomb shelters. But his main aim is to describe the enormous effect of the cold war on American life...
...Yeah, yeah, I won it all for him, I told him everything to hit everyday," Killer said with an impatient groan...
...time, Westlake was known mainly as a promising heir to the tough, taut Hammett-Chandler tradition. But suddenly he glimpsed the comic potential of tossing the sand of petty frustrations and human fallibility into the well-oiled machinery of the thriller. Nonviolent, Runyonesque crooks could become the victims, and everyday life the culprit. Getaway cars could stall, crucial phone numbers could slip the mind, a paralyzing snowstorm could fall on the day of a planned bank heist...
MARSHALL McLUHAN, Canadian communications philosopher: The late Siegfried Giedion, Swiss art historian and author of Mechanization Takes Command (1948). He was a student of formal structures in the man-made world and instituted the study of forms in everyday life. His book is a study of the death wish in modern man, with specific application to the mechanization of bread baking and meat packing. His most exciting moment was his discovery of the American barber chair...
What Roth fails above all to do is convince us that the story is an important one, somehow privileged above everyday life. He wants us to agree with Tarnopol's assertion that in the end his "True Story" has become just another "useful fiction." What he proves in fact is only the complexity of the relation between fiction and life, how they can mutually invade each other's territory and both lose a locked combat. To show that is for Roth to put himself as a novelist on the couch of literary analysis, hoping to show that the novel...