Word: prosaic
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...branch of the Varozwi tribe has been without a King since 1936, when Willie Samuriwo's father died. After numerous petitions, the Southern Rhodesian government agreed to let the throne be filled again, and last week, after King Willie passed his frightening test, he received his "crown"-a prosaic white sun helmet...
...language in the production did not bother me at all. I was prosaic enough to take the "Did the earth move?" dialogue as gypsy lore. Let's just assume that your critic has neither been a gypsy nor ever made love on a mountainside. I've never been a gypsy either, but I have made love on a mountainside. Could this have helped...
WHAT is news? Webster says simply that it is "matter of interest," a definition at once prosaic yet broad. Much interests TIME'S readers, their normal curiosity whetted by headlines, radio bulletins, TV shows. Sometimes some of the most important news of the week is made by these headlines. Newsmen rarely, if ever, report the news about themselves. Last week one story that shouted out of the front pages and caused repercussions both in the U.S. and in Europe-the story of John Foster Dulles' press conference-was created by the press, and thus what reporters, pundits...
There are certain personalities in this world who are blessed with a special knack for shedding the prosaic and attracting to their lives the romantic and the curious. Perhaps these people owe more to fate than to talent, but they exist nonetheless. And, if there are such people, there are also such buildings. Some have had to put up with centutries of mediocrity while others have been graced with consistently interesting, and often histrionic, tenants. Cambridge's Warren House belongs to this illustrious category...
...Louis has more than prosaic microfilm. Father Lowrie J. Daly, associate professor of history, who first proposed the ambitious project, was so struck by the overpowering beauty of many of the works selected that he decided to make 4.000 additional 2-in. by 2-in. color slides to supplement the 35-mm. microfilm collection...