Word: workaday
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...ended the way all N.F.L. episodes conclude lately, with Raiders Operator Al Davis claiming a league conspiracy had prevented him from trading for the Elway pick. One thing, though. The sympathy ordinarily felt toward the livestock seemed to go off somewhere else too. No matter how good they are, workaday towns are nobody's No. 1 draft choice. -By Tom Callahan
...Whitney Museum of American Art in New York City, designed by Bauhaus Architect Marcel Breuer. Yet it remains to be seen whether Graves' heavy-handed Pop surrealism-"a dash of deco and a whiff of Ledoux," as leading Postmodernist Architect Robert Venturi calls it-will influence workaday architecture. New inspirations are needed, but they should be inspirations that are real, joyful and charming...
...monthly that helped launch the careers of T.S. Eliot, Ezra Pound, Wallace Stevens and William Carlos Williams. Besides shouldering this tradition and the morose routine of rejecting manuscripts, Nims, 68, has continued to teach, lecture, translate poems from a variety of tongues and edit anthologies. He has plenty of workaday excuses to be a dull boy. Yet The Kiss, the sixth collection of his own poetry, glitters with wit and erudite tomfoolery. Its 44 poems turn the act of puckering up into cerebrations whimsical and sensuous: "A poem: most like a kiss. A play of shapes/ that search, researching over...
...list of joggers' ailments runs on and on. First there were the workaday shin splints and stress fractures. Then, somewhat more exotic, the threat of jogger's nipple and jogger's kidney. In winter, male marathoners have been known to run into penile frostbite. And women runners, it now appears, may face a problem of their own, jogger's infertility, which turns out to be easily reversible if they just stay off their feet...
...surprising, only ironic, that the unemployed should take such an uncharitable view of their own ordeal. Actually, they have merely carried into joblessness, and applied to themselves, the attitudes inculcated in them by workaday society. The American view of joblessness has never been overly sympathetic. Pioneer America flaunted its punitive sentiment in a vulgar aphorism: "Root, hog, or die!" While that position has been softened a bit (witness unemployment benefits that have ranged from $9 billion the $19 billion annually in the past few years) in the face of the fact that most of today's idleness is involuntary...