Word: everydayness
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...with transparent modesty, was "just another training mission, no different from dozens and dozens of others." In some ways, this was true. The crews were as carefully briefed and seemingly as routinely inured as for any long-distance trip. Yet as they proved once again SAC's enormous everyday striking power, it was also clear that SAC's able flyers had made the kind of history that would soar to the top of man's unending catalogue of conquests over nature...
...Marine Terminal mural) who switched'over to abstraction, after Army service in World War II, "with a sense of reawakening and release." For Brooks, "the meaning is in the series of relationships, the pressures, the visual shifts. I don't feel the need of everyday objects in my work, though I wouldn't resent them if they appeared...
...Panoramic View. To bring about a better world, says Lombardi. Christianity's leaders-bishops and priests, politicians and professionals, aristocrats and union men-must learn to bring Christianity out of the church and into everyday life. Three years ago he began organizing his training center, and meanwhile he tested his techniques on 3,015 priests, 260 bishops and about 2,000 laymen. Last fall the Pope showed his enthusiasm for the project by visiting the unfinished buildings-leaving the diocese of Rome for the first time any Pope had left it since the pontiffs lost their temporal power...
...Hopper's quiet canvases, blemishes and blessings balance. He will paint an ugly front stoop and the warmth of sunlight on it, or a sooty curtain stirring with the fragrance of an unexpected breeze. He presents common denominators, taken from everyday experiences, in a formal, somehow final, way. The results can have astonishing poignancy, as if they were familiar scenes solemnly witnessed for the very last time. "To me," says Hopper, "the important thing is the sense of going on. You know how beautiful things are when you're traveling...
Charles Pasche was born with no right arm and only a useless stump where his left arm should have been. Like many such "congenital amputees" (cause unknown), he learned to do an amazing variety of everyday tasks with his toes. It seemed impossible that he could ever become expert at what he most wanted to do-paint. But when Pasche was in his 20s, an Italian artist visiting his home in Geneva patiently taught him to hold a brush between his agile first and second toes, gave him aid in painting techniques...