Word: everydayness
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...blow off steam before the onset of Lent's rigors. It was banned by Hungary's Red rulers. But now, with their tolerance, Farsang (pronounced for-shong), is making a comeback-not so much as a pre-Lenten spree as a chance to escape the austerity of everyday life under Communism. Explained one blonde merrymaker: "We celebrate from the morning after New Year's right through Lent, and on to Easter...
...Commissioner to Palestine from 1920-25. There, inheriting the disorder of a sleepy outpost of the fallen Ottoman Empire, he put aside his personal feelings as a Jew, ruled the antagonistic Arabs and Jews with rare justice and creativity. Later, in such philosophical works as Belief and Action: An Everyday Philosophy, he used his same mediating skills in an attempt to reconcile the divergence of philosophy, science and religion...
...their sincerity and warmth, and evoke a vivid picture of Wolfson's Harvard--Widener Library, "Wolfson's table" at the Faculty Club, the Square, and the University (now Harvard Square) Theater. It is at once one of the great things about Harvard and one of the saddest that these everyday sights mean so many different things to so many people. To Wolfson pre-eminently they are a setting for "his work," a work so astounding one is staggered just reading a brief account...
According to his biographer, Hans Hess, Feininger even as a child could find "mysteries in the recesses of buildings and strange figures walking on the roofs and in the streets." He recorded these in a series of sketches of scrawled little figures doing every sort of everyday act from walking in the rain to gazing at a rainbow. Feininger also saw mystery in the machine, but his machines tended to come either from the past or from way off in the future. His nostalgic Old Locomotive is almost like a person-a gallant, superannuated old gentleman that keeps chugging along...
...them young and linked with a maverick literary movement known as Group 47, who have persistently gone on trying to probe beneath the surface prosperity to the uneasy past. As artists, they know that the dramatic story of Nazi Germany must lie not with the wolves but in the everyday lives of the lambs-those many individuals whose accumulation of fear, self-protective indifference or private greed let it all happen. In short, the guilt of the technically innocent. What lends urgency to their literary inquiry is the parallel most of them see between the new smugness and materialism...