Word: prosaic
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...uninitiated requires the willing viewer to assume a more poetic and fantastical frame of mind than is his wont. Tap the vein of poetry latent within us all. Think, not bathroom windows, but towering glaciers. Or, if the bathroom window resemblance remains inescapable, try to overcome its more prosaic implications. These are not ordinary frosted windows; these are the bathroom windows of your dreams, though slightly colder than the discriminating bather might wish...
...this exhibit is to be excessively cold, but it is also to appreciate the spectacular inherent in even the most prosaic of all materials. Van Valkenburgh allows the ice to show itself. The Radcliffe Quadrangle Ice Project is precisely that, a demonstration of ice, of its limitations, its beauty and the hold it has on all of our imaginations...
With only 21 days left until Christmas and even fewer until the annual rite of Secret Santa-ing starts, students are prowling the Square for out-of-the-ordinary gift ideas. But most students' ideas are just too prosaic, so here are some ideas for people who are tired of the routine Hershey kisses and reindeer pins, brought to you by a source of higher knowledge...
Simon spent the Korean War as an Army private in West Germany, interrogating East German defectors. A diary he briefly kept during this period tends toward the prosaic: "Attended Easter Service in downtown Stuttgart. Went away very much uninspired." Back in Troy, he mounted an uphill campaign for state representative in 1954 "to show that you could beat the system." By dint of his innate friendliness and the hard work of shaking 30,000 hands, he succeeded...
...hindsight it is hard to believe that a lustrous political career could hang on such prosaic details. Moreover, the Herald's stakeout would have been infinitely more difficult at a later stage in the campaign, when Hart would have warranted Secret Service protection. In short, for want of a lookout a presidential campaign was lost. It ultimately made little difference that Hart told Herald reporters Saturday night, "I have no personal relationship with the woman you are following...