Word: everydayness
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...that perhaps I'd never get up again. Like a crab lying on its back." But he never complains, never makes others bear his moral burden. As the weeks go by, Franklin fights his way out of despair, out of an oppressive sense of permanent isolation from the everyday, active world he loves, out of nightmare fears that a fire may break out in the house and burn him alive while he lies unable to lift a finger. He fights his way, day by day, muscle by muscle, out of paralysis. When the infection subsides, Franklin's fingers...
...spiritual level, tended to idealize their figures. Van Eyck had a passion for detail, and his people -whether saints or not-were complete individuals. Landscape and still life came into their own; light and shadow played a more subtle role; the way was open for the time when the everyday mortal would become a worthy subject...
Canon Dewar's own original interpretation of the working of the Holy Spirit is that His field of operation is the unconscious, where He can make Himself felt in terms of what the parapsychologists call "psi phenomena"-clairvoyance, telepathy, psychokinesis, etc.-as well as in everyday life, the source of what the Christian calls his "conscience." Nor, in Canon Dewar's thinking, is the Holy Spirit limited to Christians...
...even know how important he was.' " The Dadaists (among them Jean Arp, Marcel Duchamp and Max Ernst) took their name from a nonsense phrase, but thought they were making sense of a kind. In the disillusioned aftermath of World War I. Schwitters used the bric-a-brac of everyday life-fragments of newspapers, railroad maps, timetables, string, bottle caps, photographs-to assemble collages (see color) that were a twitting comment on bourgeois life and an already demolished world. To Schwitters a canceled imperial postage stamp represented the collapse of the Hohenzollerns. Schwitters' collages were not meant merely...
...Kirk and a cast of dozens roamed the convention floor freely (while many delegates had trouble getting into the hall at all) to sell Adlai with glamour. Outside, Actress Mercedes Mc-Cambridge, dressed in the costume of a Golden Girl hostess, helped light fires un der ragtag groups of everyday Steven-sonites ("We'll storm that place!"). Over the years, the proper Stevensonians had saved their loftiest political scorn not for those bedrock Republicans, Adolphe Menjou and John Wayne, but for Peter Lawford's Kooky Klucks Klan...