Word: prosaicly
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...last section of the book consists of an assortment of Hoagland's Times editorials. Uniformly great, they are lyrical reminders of the virtues of juneberries, and if not specifically of juneberries, then of the virtue of noticing the smaller prosaic things and events which often go unnoticed. Whether reading about "poisonous and nonpoisonous varieties of the genus Amanita" mushrooms, or the skin in sheddings of garter snakes, one is thrilled. The sobering comes shortly after, when one remembers the criminally foolish president and his similarly foolish and greedy followers who strive to make the water, as and ground unlivable...
...next Monday looms like Heartbreak Hill. It figures to be the final Patriots Day for the Boston Marathon, and the last stand of undiluted amateurism. For reasons no less prosaic than television, the Boston Athletic Association intends to shift its noble race next year to Sunday, perhaps adjust the starting and finish lines slightly for commercial purposes, and, if all that isn't jarring enough, begin paying the winners. Will Cloney, 70, president of the B. A. A. and master of the marathon, contends that there is at least "a semantic difference between being paid and running for prizes...
...children in line is to use them in their battles, and the children recognize this. Here, as in Lebanon and elsewhere, children are often deliberately placed at the head of demonstrations, marches and funeral processions. Their mere presence gives moral authority to the cause. A booklet under the prosaic title Rubber & Plastic Bullets Kill & Maim contains pictures and stories of child victims; the more brutal the better. Such devices work especially well in Belfast, where everyone gives the impression of knowing everyone else, where people like Paul and Bernadette achieve a dubious celebrity for having had their lives shot...
...simplest definition, exaggeration is a form of lying. Is it therefore bad, an instrument of untruth? It depends. Sometimes the artful exaggeration is a way of evoking, of discovering, an essential truth lying below the prosaic surface of things. The very idea of exaggeration presupposes some discoverable, objective reality; the task of the human eye and scientific intelligence, in this classic view, would be to describe that reality as dispassionately and accurately as possible. The world has its being outside the fanciful brain of the exaggerator, a romantic whose business is to distort reality. Still, in the late 20th century...
...California that Cain funy explored this theme. In California, he found a society so new, so unstable that he didn't need floods or coal mines to bring two people passionately together. As he told Hoopes, "Any piece of California, no matter how drab, prosaic, or dull, is California just the same, the land of Golden Promise." Unlike the staid, conservative East, where the wealthy stayed wealthy and the poor stayed poor, the West had become a land of overnight wealth, of rags to riches, with nobody excluded from the chase. Many characters are willing to risk anything to find...