Word: everydayness
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...chemists have tried to synthesize chlorophyll-and failed. But last week Harvard University announced that Professor Robert Burns Woodward, 43, already famed for synthesizing quinine, cortisone and strychnine, had turned the historic trick: he had built genuine chlorophyll-a, the kind that green plants use, out of simple, everyday chemicals...
...Everyday crises of this sort are strangely reminiscent of what in TV parlance is known as "situation comedy." except that the meaning here is dead serious - adding up to a type of literature that might be called situation tragedy...
...people make their entrances and exits, and the trains rush in and out again, and life moves on. Her problem is what it has always been: how to catch the fleeting moment without freezing its flight. Isabel Bishop's brush creates a vibrant shimmer and veils her everyday dramas in a magic mist that evokes a sense of timelessness...
Forget the Pain. Why? In everyday, nonstressful use of muscles, Dr. Hellebrandt holds, man leaves them largely under the control of his highest reasoning centers (in the cerebral cortex). But in extremis, as in the agony phase of exhaustion or in a crisis when a man finds the superhuman strength to lift one corner of a heavy automobile to free his trapped child, the cortex shuts down and the primitive brain centers take over. It is in this state that Dr. Hellebrandt sees the crossover effect of muscle building, and that is why she pushes her coed volunteers...
...some of Bergman's friends, the suburban idyl looks too good to last. One of them skeptically recalls a line from a Bergman script: "Happiness is a thick, paralyzing pastry settling down on one's everyday life." But so far happiness has not stifled Bergman's creative inspiration. Last week most of his next film, a comedy called The Devil's Eye, was in the can, and he was hard at work on the script of another picture. And it will take him a dozen years, he expects, to make all the other movies...