Word: everyday
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...joke out of the "energies of life," this whole book concerns Muldoon's discovery that the voice often masks the subject; action similarly disguises reality. Muldoon is aware that "unseen and mysterious forces" propel him. He recognizes that the Light--wisdom or maybe just balance--drawing him beyond the everyday world is as inevitable as the lure of the apple to Adam...
...tanks also supply diversion for as many people as the Charles does--boatloads and boatloads. Each of the two tanks hosts three crews per hour, and they are used from 1:30 to 6:30 p.m. everyday...
With these and similar wordings (see box), the Good News Bible, published this week by the American Bible Society, turns Holy Writ into modern, everyday English. In doing so, the new translation continues one of the great success stories in publishing history. Until the late 1950s, the Bible Society limited itself to distributing low-cost editions of traditional translations. Then it decided to prepare its own Bible, beginning with a New Testament, aimed at roughly a high school reading level...
...paper also takes stands on personal conduct in everyday life. Ergo reprints each fall a sermon-like article by Wright, for the benefit of incoming freshmen. The article applies libertarian principles to college life, and finds it sadly collectivist: "There is, on university campuses today, a vicious killer loose: a destructive force that can sap the minds and souls of the strongest men. That killer is peer pressure. Do not say that you can value both your ideals and the approval of the group. The group will not have you on such terms--you must adapt to theirs...
...greatest creation: his indomitable individuality. A resident of Paris since 1921 (except for a ten-year stretch in Hollywood starting in 1940), Ray was most successful as a photographer. His other work included Rayographs (images made by placing objects directly on photosensitive paper), startling constructions built out of everyday items (such as a flatiron studded with a row of tacks), and paintings, about which he was the most serious. Ray delighted in having no readily identifiable style. "Life is an instant, a one-day insect," he once said. "There's no time to do two things alike...