Word: workaday
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...carvings of workaday subjects were both vigorous and elaborate. The dean of Renaissance art experts, Bernard Berenson, was instantly reminded, when he first saw them, of "the Early Christian sarcophagi that line the grand staircase of the Lateran Museum in Rome. The same stumpy, neckless bodies, with disproportionately big heads of late antique shape, the same crowding, the same . . . distribution of light and shade...
...workaday diplomacy, Canadian government leaders liked the attentive hearing Steinhardt gave their problems and his willingness to go to bat for Canada in Washington. "The trouble with Canadians is that they never make enough noise...
...Louella Parsons thought him too smart for her own good), Skinny signed up with N.E.A. Skinny knew that he was no match for the catty, gossipy coverage of Hollywood's boudoirs, salons and saloons by Columnists Parsons and Hedda Hopper. Instead, he started covering Hollywood like any good, workaday reporter, still makes a daily round of the studios. Explains Johnson: "Hollywood is a City Hall beat, with bosoms...
...other note-makers have nailed their colors to the mast and let their hair down to the last soiled lovelock, urbane Maugham has preferred to soak his colors in bleach and pin his hair in a tight bun. His Notebook (the whittlings-down of "fifteen stoutish volumes") contains mostly workaday jottings from 1892 (when he had just started to write) to 1949 (when he suggests that he is just about to stop). "I publish it," he explains, "because I am interested in the ... process of creation ... By some happy chance what interests me seems to interest a great many other...
...same innocent-sounding question: "What do you want to be when you grow up?" The answers were disturbing. Last week, in her book, We and Our Children, Russian readers were finding out that their kids want to be great and famous-and hardly any are dreaming of the workaday glories that lie ahead in mills, mines and on collective farms...