Word: everydayness
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...three Skylab astronauts have been so busy coping with one crisis after another aboard America's first space station that they have had little time to consider one of the most important questions of their 28-day mission: What are the everyday problems of living and working in space over prolonged periods of time? Last week, as Skylab's troubles finally subsided, Astronauts Pete Conrad, Joe Kerwin and Paul Weitz began to verify some old answers and provide some new ones...
Stylistically Adrienne has woven painting and film into her poetry, constructing an extremely visual literary art, full of sharp images and striking scenes. Thematically she deals repeatedly with death, with the passing of time, and, like the Emily Dickinson she admires so much, with the religious dimensions of everyday life. "You can't be a poet and not have any religious feeling," she explains. "I don't care for institutionalized religion, but I'm very interested now in the history of religion; the changes in ancient civilizations from worshipping goddesses to the worship of male gods, the evolution of patriarchal...
...mantra" is assigned for life to each student by a teacher. Contemplation of the mantra allows the user to enter the transcendental state, during which Geeslin says meditators appear to be sleeping but in fact remain acutely alert to the outside environment. "What occurs during meditation is that everyday levels of thought become quieter and quieter until the quietest level can be transcended. The quieting is accompanied by physical changes--the breathing is shallower, brain waves are altered, and the heart load changes," he says...
...part of his own identity, made formally significant. At times, such gestures as the inclusion of envelopes addressed to Motherwell himself or fragments of programs advertising "I'aventure de I'art abstrait" seem incongruous, amidst the terms of abstract impersonality. For surrounding the bits of cut and pasted everyday material are the gruff lines and shapes of Motherwell's own brand of abstract expressionism. But the elements which move to the forefront are the individual ones: it is the artist's signature which is rendered large and explained by the inclusion of materials reflecting the artist...
...with the hot somnolence of Saturday in downtown Omaha. And perhaps this is why the World Series has been a success for such a long time. For the people of Omaha the College World Series is an annual festival, bringing diversion and a chance for community involvement into the everyday routine of the other 51 weeks of the year...