Word: everydayness
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...Terror. Cosa Nostra is run like a feudal state at war. Its "soldiers," the everyday thugs, are organized into "regimas" and led by "lieutenants." The regimas, in turn, are organized into "families" and bossed by twelve '"capos" (heads), each representing a geographic area, who make up Cosa Nostra's grand council, and to gether are the final arbiters of the syndicate's affairs. Chief among them is convicted Narcotics Racketeer Vito Genovese. From Leavenworth Penitentiary, Genovese still communicates his decisions to the mob through ex-cons or in codes sent by letter or visitors...
What I have in mind is Lear's very last five lines--the most daring and unorthodox valedictory speech ever penned, though made up of nothing but short, everyday words: "Thou" It come no more,/ Never, never, never, never, never!/ Pray you undo this button. Thank you, sir./ Do you see this? Look on her! look! her lips!/ Look there, look there...
...Seventh Avenue too readily as spangles and fringes. When it comes to elegance, the field is still held by Paris. But wardrobes the world over are filled with more than ball gowns and capes, and, increasingly over the past few years, the U.S. has come to dominate the other, everyday end of the closet. As the fall collection previews drew to a close last week in Manhatan, they proved that the American sporty look is undisputedly tops...
...that The Method is acultural and fails to teach people to comprehend such things as the nuances of foreign-language poetry. Berlitz does not debate the point; but it does claim that it can help a businessman close a deal by giving him an effective working knowledge of the everyday language...
...Doty Committee, in sum, has abandoned the Messianic preoccupation with "universal" General Education and narrowed its attention to-everyday problems at Harvard. The theme of its final report will surely not be, as a distinguished reviewer once said of the Redbook, that "Harvard Wants to Join America" but rather that "Harvard Wants to Mind Its Own Business." Instead of saving Western Democracy the Doty Committee has a more modest aim: the preservation of Harvard College and the cultivation of a new, more-up-to-date version of the liberally educated...