Word: everydayness
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These and other diverse details of the towering romantic's everyday life are revealed in a fascinating series of books now being prepared for publication by music scholars in East Berlin. They are known as Beethoven's "Conversation Notebooks." To judge from a wide sampling shown TIME'S Bonn Correspondent Peter Range, reading the notebooks is like sitting down with the master and his friends and listening to them chat. Says George Marek, author of a massive recent Beethoven life:* "The notebooks give us the picture of Beethoven the real man. They tell...
...Veal has not been available for months. If a housewife wants a decent cut of beef or pork, she often must bribe the butcher with scarce items such as ball point pens or a few yards of suit cloth. For months store shelves in Czechoslovakia have been bare of everyday items like flashlight batteries, warm shoes, bed linen and towels. Until the government authorized emergency imports two months ago, there was also a shortage of women's panties and men's underwear...
...children gibed at his young daughter about her father's playing with toys, Boghosian sat down and reflected on his purpose. "The play world becomes for the artist a real world," he concluded, "while the real world becomes a play world, in the sense that the artist uses everyday existence to stir his fantasy...
...playground of the ego, under the cruel deception that we know who we are and what we are doing. In the moments that we consider our "best"-our most loving. spontaneous. "together"-we occasionally glimpse into the fourth room, only to be driven back to the third by the everyday, performance-oriented demands and socialization of plastic cultures. Very few have defeated the bogus monster of the ego to reside permanently in the fourth room, and fewer still (only the greatest teachers) can glimpse into the fifth. Anyone who permanently reaches the fifth room loses his corporeal form...
Though Israel has been governed by a delicate alliance of secular and Orthodox Jews since its birth as a nation, Jewish religious law-Halakha-enjoys a remarkable prominence in the everyday life of the country. Last week the Israeli Supreme Court handed down a close decision that threatens the status of Halakha and could create a rupture in the ruling coalition. At issue: whether the state may decide...