Word: everydayness
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...unmistakably as the computer has altered the character of everyday life, it is changing the shape of the computer business itself. For the past three years, one-tenth of new U.S. investment in plant and equipment has gone into computers, enough to make electronic data processing the nation's fastest-growing major industry. Last year computer-industry revenues rose 17%, to some $12.5 billion. Still, the computer industry may in some ways be a victim of its own success. Computer technology has raced ahead of the ability of many customers to make good use of it. Not long...
...themselves to welders to learn sculpture techniques. At Goucher College near Baltimore, the hit of 55 interim courses concocted by students and professors has the forbidding title "Chemistry and Physics Applied: Nuts and Bolts of Contemporary Society." The course is really a seminar on the workings and repair of everyday household appliances...
...unnecessary function. It is autotelic: the fan enjoys the power and precision of the play for their own sake. Thus, we begin to see what anyone who has ever watched a good game knows or at least obscurely senses: that football is better-more satisfying, emotionally and intellectually-than everyday life. The remaining points will justify this claim...
...football, then, the spectator sympathetically participates in a heightened form of existence. During the brief hours of the game he sees the base matter of everyday life lifted up, purified, clarified, intensified: idealized figures, stronger, swifter, more cunning than ordinary men, fight a bruising battle in a make-believe microcosm (the stadium as ideal universe). Football is a synthesis of illusion and reality. A good football game is real enough to involve the spectator, illusory enough to liberate him. It creates a series of what Sartre called "privileged moments" -a temporary and imaginary redemption...
...result of all that labor proves that Beethoven did not just "free music"-as his romantic biographers put it-but the creative ego and id of every composer who followed. Prior to Beethoven, music in general never moved too far from the everyday interests of its patrons, be they commoners or royalty; this was true of a Bach cantata or a Mozart serenade. Beethoven changed that. As the father of musical romanticism, he made music an expressive function of himself. Later composers carried the cult of music for music's sake too far, and divorced "serious" composition from...