Word: everydayness
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...between the way things are and the way they want them to be. Anouilh is not interested in either ex posing or extolling his characters. He simply wants to catch them, and the audience, in the cruel toils of the human situation, masked, as it always is, with deceptive everyday smiles. Of The Rehearsal, as of all his finest plays, he could say with Nietzsche: "We have art in order that we may not perish from truth...
...axiomatic in medicine that if many different treatments for a single condition are listed in the textbooks, none of them can be much good. Dozens are listed for the pain and disability in muscles and joints that commonly result from everyday injuries. They include drugs, heat, cold, rest, exercise, etc. Lieut. Colonel Arthur E. Grant, chief of physical medicine at Brooke Army General Hospital in Texas, was aware of all the possibilities because he was responsible for thousands of G.I.s who kept getting themselves banged up. He wanted something more effective than traditional medicine...
...problems that face the managers of the world's businesses. While they discussed such matters as tariffs, credit and interest rates, their main thrust probed much deeper-into the whole meaning and purpose of the modern corporation. Specifically, they wanted to know how businessmen should square their everyday drive for profit with the broader goal of enhancing human welfare...
...East seemed much the same. And why not? A soup can is a soup can, whatever the clime. Like their New York counterparts, California pop painters gaze not upon nature or the human form but upon the most banal man-made objects or the most routine images of everyday life-a milk bottle, an advertising trademark, a scrap from a comic strip. These things are the same all over the nation; here indeed is expectable conformity. But upon closer scrutiny the Californians shared common aspects and a sort of group triumph: their stuff was even drearier than that...
...polka-dotted leather sandal, a rabbit nibbling round fruit on a woven wool square. Textiles-wall hangings for tombs, shirts and coats for the dead-form perhaps the highest level of Coptic art, and the hot, dry desert climate has preserved some of the best examples: representations of everyday occurrences, proud portrayals of heroic scenes, and obedient evocations of saints and holy acts...