Word: do-it-yourself
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Modern tragedy is guilty of another heresy as well-the Pelagian idea* of salvation as strictly a do-it-yourself project. This is evident in the modern tragic hero's tendency to rise above his fate, bloody but unbowed, whereas the traditional tragic hero was reduced at the close to "the very last point of human finitude and helplessness." Today's "attempts at tragedy have abandoned this finite image for a new Pelagian tactic, for a new type of third act, the third act of the power and the exclamation point." Society & Ritual. Similarly, too many people turn...
...modest Georgian house known as a "Grace and Favor'' residence at Kensington Palace. Here, in the first home of her own she has ever known. Margaret will have to get used to such wifely chores as housekeeping and decorating. Tony is to have a darkroom and a do-it-yourself workshop in the basement, and both are expected to live quietly for a time, as befits newlyweds. Thus last week, the fairy tale ended as a fairy tale should, with the hope of all Britain that the princess and her consort will live happily ever after...
...them as adults. The high school graduates, on the other hand, were the sons or grandsons of immigrants, were raised in poorer families, had to cope with considerably more adolescent problems than the college men. They married earlier, had more domestic problems, more financial worries, embarked on more home do-it-yourself projects. Finally, they faced an unfamiliar life in a big corporation in which they struggled hard to succeed. The Cornell team concluded: "Their relative ill health might well be regarded as the price they are paying for getting ahead in the world...
...most influential men in U.S. city planning is neither a licensed architect, a city official, nor an engineer. He is Manhattan Real Estate Tycoon Robert W. Dowling. who at 64 bosses the $53 million City Investing Co., and whose conception of his role makes him an amateur do-it-yourself designer, an inventor and innovator, and a patron of the arts on a grand scale. Bowling's purpose is simple enough. He wants 1) to make money, while 2) enhancing the U.S. landscape with well-planned developments. Says Dowling: "I always think about our place in history. The great...
Inviting the Chicago Sun-Times's Irv Kupcinet and the New York Herald Tribune's Hy Gardner to grill him on the air, Paar answered their questions with the air of a do-it-yourself martyr. At one point he shed tears, telling about his ten-year-old daughter's problem of being overweight and how New York World-Telegram and Sun Columnist Harriet Van Home had called attention to it (when Randy Paar made one of her frequent appearances with papa). "Who the hell is that broad," said Paar, "to talk about my daughter...