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Word: prosaic (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1960-1969
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...shrill polemics are gone, the layout is conservative. Compared with the psychedelic sheets put out by today's revolutionary-minded kids, the Daily World seems almost as prosaic as a house organ for some large trade union. In its first issues, it reported the first New York-Moscow air link, the threatening steel strike, the tussle over the poverty program. An editorial had some kind words for the U.S.: "The recent increase in activity in Washington and Moscow toward more cordial relations should be welcomed by all Americans." And some sharp words for "selfstyled Leftists who denounce any step...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Newspapers: The Aged Worker | 7/26/1968 | See Source »

...ordinary existence and some higher form of life which Eliot calls "trans-humanization," so the language alternates between verse which approximates the rhythms of everyday speech and, occasionally, transcedent bursts of poetry. But the current production hangs somewhere in between, slightly stilted when it wants to be conversational, slightly prosaic when it wants to be luminous. The net effect is to add to the sensation of discomfort...

Author: By Lee H. Simowitz, | Title: Cocktail Party | 5/3/1968 | See Source »

...church in a modern setting that we stop talking so much, be quiet and think and pray. Sometimes, it seems to me, our theologians and intellectuals confound the very ideas they wish to propound by indulging in so much pompous, convoluted verbosity. The rest of us-the prosaic mass-have traditionally looked to our founding fathers and religious leaders to help us articulate that which we so inadequately proclaim. I, for one, am not confused by God, or the church, or my place in a secular world. I am confused and profoundly disappointed in the lack of faith displayed...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Letters: Apr. 19, 1968 | 4/19/1968 | See Source »

...lover, the suicide-bent pessimist, the intellectual incapable of action, the Piedmontese boy who even in the city never loses his love for his native mountains-these are all Pavese. His characters are en gaged in a relentless search to figure out what it is they want from a prosaic life; that too was Pavese. He was a lonely man, and his narrators are lonely; they are wanderers, loving solitude and yet caught up in the senseless rush of people who have a need for febrile action, drink and meaningless sexual bouts...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: Vita Without the Dolce | 3/29/1968 | See Source »

...suggesting how a couple in love becomes the most exclusive club in the world. He registers the fierce chemistry of passion by which the Other Woman swiftly becomes the Only Woman. Where Wesker is strongest he is also weakest, since the language of love is finite and, in his prosaic words, even banal...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: New Plays: The Four Seasons | 3/22/1968 | See Source »

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