Word: prosaic
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...innovative ways, McKay holds to a prosaic philosophy: "Players win; plays don't." As a recruiter, he stays close to home: of the 100 U.S.C. players currently on scholarship, only five are from out of state. McKay's pitch-like his pep talks-is low-key and persuasive: a good education, a lucrative summer job, a chance to play with a proven winner and an influential assist at landing a job after graduation. If a high school star is good enough to look forward to a pro career, McKay lets it drop that 27 former U.S.C. players-more...
Nonetheless, the prosaic preparations for the summit, foreshadowing the entry of Britain, Ireland and Denmark into the EEC on Jan. 1, accurately reflect the current boredom with the whole idea of a united Europe. Little more than a decade ago, Spanish Philosopher Salvador de Madariaga grandly envisioned the day when "Spaniards will say 'our Chartres,' Italians 'our Copenhagen' and Germans 'our Bruges,' and will step back horror-stricken at the idea of laying murderous hands on it." Then there were dreams and drama; today there are mostly details...
...talk of putting their heads in the oven and adds that for years he went around repeating "Iwishiweredead" to himself. But why? And how did he feel as the final, slow, nightmarish slide toward darkness took hold of him in his 31st year? Did he do anything so prosaic as hide the pills in those spare moments of common sense when he wondered, as he must have wondered, what effect his death would have on his small child? For all we learn, Alvarez might just as well be a tongue-tied stockbroker. The only flash of revelation comes after...
...winded committee members. Once more, then, Snow's plot hinges on the rather academic question: Who casts a deciding vote? The answer comes with a dash of LSD and a mysterious death by defenestration. But it is delivered in a style that is not so much prose as prosaic. At the end, Snow's hero decides to get married and bore from within society. With typical felicity, he concludes: "Some feelings were simpler, compulsorily simpler, than until inside them one would ever think." Heavy...
...directing Moliere's "Imaginary Invalid," the first play she has directed which is not twentieth century. In her production of "The Imaginary Invalid," Coe has fused her directorial and authorial talents by integrating three translations to compose the script, "to depart from the stiff, dull and awkward seventeenth century prosaic speech patterns to which the academic translators feel committed. But this departure from the sacred script," she goes on to explain, "is just an extension of the motif we have followed in every aspect of our production: anachronism." As she firmly guides the rehearsal she interjects suggestions that...