Word: everydayness
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...from the Ashcan. Glackens believed first and foremost in illustrating the everyday life around him. Born in Philadelphia in 1870, he studied art at the Pennsylvania Academy, became a newspaper artist, along with George Luks, John Sloan and Everett Shinn, for the Philadelphia Press and later the New York World. Afterhours, the group congregated around Painter Robert Henri, trying to match the dark brown tints of old masters like Frans Hals and recent ones like Manet...
Along with its Hi Brows, American Greetings right now is profiting from another change in greeting-card habits. Once holidays and birthdays were the principal business, and there was a long dull season between Father's Day and Thanksgiving. Now "everyday cards"-get-wells, new baby, confirmation, religious cards and bon-voyage messages -account, along with birthdays, for 60% of American Greetings' business, since families are more scattered nowadays. Last week there was even a rush for another of the everydays that American Greetings stocks in its inventory of 10,000 different cards. "Just because...
...they get the response they hope for from their classified ads in the CRIMSON and the "personal" column of the New York Times, the group will have hundreds of such reports. They will divide the incidents according to what they tell about the "character of everyday social contacts," Milgram explained yesterday. The project will deal with both such specific things about the cities as pacing (how fast people walk there), and such general topics as alleged French hostility to tourists...
...Russian Spy Oleg Penkovsky before the Soviets nabbed them both in 1962. Proctor-Gould may or may not be in the intelligence game himself (he, of course, denies it), but Frayn, a satiric columnist for the London Observer, cannot resist giving him a bizarre cover job: he recruits everyday Russians for appearance on Western lecture circuits and TV. "The press and television in Britain and America," Proctor-Gould explains blandly, "are crying out for good human material...
...than imaginative experiences for the viewer. But seen in this light, they demonstrate taste and skill. Their bright colors and attractive design put them in a class with Danish furniture or Florentine leather; they improve the visual quaity of our environment and perhaps they even stimulate an examination of everyday surroundings in terms of aesthetic values. They do not, however, intend to evoke the imaginative emotional response which is experienced through literature or traditional styles of painting...