Word: prosaic
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...discovery was made by a young Italian engineer named Erno Bellante, who was building a road past the town of Sperlonga (pop. 3,000) by the Tyrrhenian Sea. Taking time off from his prosaic work, Amateur Archaeologist Bellante set workmen to digging inside the grotto of Tiberius (who reigned from 14 A.D. to 37 A.D.), 90-ft.-deep cavern hard by the site of Tiberius' famed Villa Spelunca (Cave Villa).* Beneath six inches of limy earth, one of Bellante's men struck a marble fragment shaped like the calf of a human leg, about twice lifesize. The diggers...
After the high drama of Suez and Hungary, which dominated the Eleventh General Assembly of the United Nations, delegates to the Twelfth General Assembly gathered in Manhattan last week, willing to be more prosaic. "Frankly," said one Western diplomat, "we hope this is going to be a dull, dreary and fast session...
...film's strength is its refusal to melodramatize a situation whose inherent horror needs no melodrama. There is enough prosaic terror as Don, with slow, agonized self-abasement, reveals the nature of his sickness to his wife and father. A tour of an opium den could not carry the powerful conviction of this view into an ordinary living room...
...Capriccio blends American Spanish, French, and Italian coffee. Wilson gets his coffee from Boston wholesalers. He finally settled for La Touraine for the American coffee after trying more prosaic brands. Each establishment uses the pulverized Turkish blend, the daddy of the instant coffees...
...house. In an ill-lighted room, furnished with a gigantic coffee maker and a comatose young man playing the guitar, you pay 60 cents for a demitasse cup to fool with while you inhale the atmosphere of delicious imported wickedness. In an atmosphere of such exuberant freedom the most prosaic Radcliffe student can entertain titillating existentialist opinions, even though the only feeling of anxiety she may ever have is to wonder if she can pay for all the cafe au lait she has drunk, and her only feeling of dread, that provoked by the approaches of the young man sitting...