Word: prosaic
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...RELIGION Aug 11], L'Osservatore Romano is quoted as condemning the practice as "morally illicit" and equivalent to suicide. I am afraid L'Osservatore is allowing itself to over-romanticize a so-called tradition that (in so far as it ever existed) really had a much more prosaic foundation...
...Cuban revolution, Lina Ruz de Castro stirred inevitable rumors of defection when she flew out of Havana bound for Mexico City. But upon landing at Central Airport, she loyally respun her long-playing public apologia for the new "socialism"-"Everything is fine; we are enchanted"-and explained the prosaic purpose of her trip: Daughter Emma, wife of Mexican Engineer Victor Lomeli Delgado, is expecting a first child...
Scenes from the book are played out onscreen as a sort of parenthesis to the main action. Dads, really a prosaic accountant, is shown as an embezzler who, "desperate for just a little snooky-ookums," squanders his company's loot on his secretary. Auntie is a dipso who makes love to a skeleton. The family doctor is a leering, lolloping office Lothario. Mums is carrying on with her driving instructor, and the authoress herself is driven to wicked ways in the big city...
...with a personal flair. When he wangled orders to flight school, he became so impatient with the pace of service routine that he got himself a private pilot's license at a civilian flight school. When he took up water skiing, he found two skis too prosaic; he learned to manage with one and is now planning to get a boat fast enough to pull him along on the soles of his bare feet. "It is characteristic of him always to find a challenge," says his pretty wife Louise, whom he married in 1945 after dating her at Annapolis...
...romantic watercolors. Living apart from the world's art centers, Yeats was untouched by the overpowering movements of his time, developed a lyricism entirely his own. The world's most stirring sights, he once said, are a man plowing and a ship at sea. In the most prosaic of daily happenings, he found life's heroics; his eye was piercing, his heart all-enveloping. "The roots of true art," he said, "are in the affections...