Word: everydayness
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...personal whims. He likes peanut butter and banana sandwiches with Pepsi or Nesbitt's orange soda to drink. He owns half a dozen cars, including a gold-trimmed Cadillac that has been spray-painted with 40 coats of crushed diamonds. But since that is a bit showy for everyday and is being used by RCA on promotion tours, a black Rolls-Royce does the journeyman work...
...center of Europe between the wars, when old Balkan societies were in flux, governments were tyrannical or unstable, and economies sickly or chaotic. For Western Europe, terror was still an outrage, even in war-time an exception to the rule. In Eastern Europe, terror walked in everyday clothes; Dedijer's first wife joined the fighting against the Germans after she saw four Partisans hanging from street-lamps in Belgrade's main square...
...essay is directed toward a particular type of modern art and a particular type of criticism. Fried handles abstract art masterfully as a critic but maintains a critical bias in his "historical generalizations. He treats as historically insignificant many excellent contemporary painters who are concerned with the everyday things of our world, that is, artists who work with "subject matter." It is important to see more of the aspects of the exciting contemporary scene. Fried has gathered together an abstract exhibition of high quality though not representative of all legitimate contemporary styles...
...must go rather toward the soul than through theories toward the brain," he said. "Art and life itself seem to me like a boat upon the waters. To whom is it given, this gift of guiding this boat and how to sail it? I see the life of everyday peoples and things as through a tear. I try to offer them, as I can, a plastic reflection." Mixing his metaphors as brightly as he does his oils, Chagall concluded that "the role of the artist is tragic today because, while the world's horizons have been extended, the human...
...statement from the Massachusetts Freedom Movement hailed the March on Boston as long overdue. "Slum Housing and poor, segregated schools destroy thousands of people everyday. Massachusetts Freedom Movement calls upon its 14 affiliated units and all those who supported the two school stayouts to March on Boston," a spokesman said...