Word: quotidian
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...others to salvation. Three characters in the play indicate Eliot's idea of the two paths to that goal: Celia, a married man's mistress, is guided to a saintly martyrdom ("crucified very near an anthill"); an unhappy couple named Edward and Lavinia are pointed toward the quotidian heroism of accepting their own and each other's shortcomings and simply getting on with their lives...
These people are a sort that has always existed in prosperous, energetic societies. Light-hearted and lightweight, they are fun to read about; they jazz up the sometimes drab quotidian scene; they add froth and zest, but they are not made of the stuff to set the pace for a country of the breadth, height and complexity of America. W.E.G. TAYLOR New York City...