Word: everydayness
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...Buddy Holly sang Everyday...
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...intellectual pretensions and popular successes. One of the surprises is that many of the once admired esthetes look downright banal today, while several of the philistines positively shine. William Powell Frith (1819-1909) had nothing but contempt for "the crazes in art," preferred to depict "the infinite variety of everyday life." His Derby Day (center color pages) drew such huge crowds to the Royal Academy in 1858 that it had to be protected by a guard rail...
...local jail, or they assume that prison reform has worked some quiet miracle of rehabilitation. Experienced in mates know better. Understaffed and undersupervised, county jails often provide terror far more chilling than any thing to be found in a full-scale pen itentiary. Last week the everyday horrors of life in Chicago's Cook County Jail erupted into public view. A grand jury has been investigating, and the city's newspapers have started interviewing former inmates. The result is a stomach-turning catalogue of depravity...
...inadequate budget (?4 million a year), he has tried to put a greater variety of the museum's vast materials before the public. In one imaginative display he arranged finds from the museum's 1963-64 New Guinea expedition into an attractive mix of the utensils of everyday life with elaborate objets d'art. "We endeavor to give a complete picture of a culture-not only the people on top, but through everybody on down as well," he explains. Also successful was a centenary exhibition honoring Karl Marx, who wrote most of Das Kapital in the museum...