Word: prosaicly
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...south side of Flint, Mich., is a patchwork of auto factories, union halls, corner taverns and conventional churches. Yet in this prosaic setting has arisen in recent years a belief as startling as anything cult-filled California has to offer. The unlikely focus of the new faith is Bernard Gill, for 13 years a respected clergyman in the Church of the Nazarene. Fed up with "promotion, programs, plans," he searched for a fiercer, purer form of Fundamentalism. Seven years ago, at 43, he quit the Nazarenes and with a handful of parishioners established the independent Colonial Village Church...
...Even for readers of the funny pages, there is no escape from reminders of the gloomy economy. Blondie's henpecked husband, Dagwood Bumstead, beefs about inflation. In the prosaic adventures of Mary Worth, two characters are currently struggling with unemployment. Alf, a character in The Dropouts, recently suggested a complicated idea for solving the present financial problems. "Terrific! Why don't you send a note to the world's economists?" a colleague enthusiastically recommends. Says Alf, "Can't afford to-'til the price of paper comes down." One of the oldest comics, Little Orphan Annie...
...frequent buying trips to Europe, he patrols four floors of highly variegated merchandise. His cheapest item is a 5? cork, his most expensive a $500 copper pot suitable for an entire sheep. Between these terminals is a treasury of the familiar and exotic. Prosaic pepper mills and soup bowls huddle with sophisticated croissant cutters and the French Cuisinart Food Processor, a $160 Rube Goldberg contraption for slicing and pulverizing just about anything. No device, no matter how arcane or costly, sits around for long...
...hardly a tragic sound, and occasionally, when the beefy officer with the jowls like the Verrazanno Bridge shuffles to the back of the room to open a certain window, you can hear the cars honking on Somerset Street. The press has responded dutifully to this long list of prosaic particulars, by failing to come up with a name for the trial in the tradition of either the "Scopes Monkey Trial" or the trial of the "Chicago Seven...
...government officials, through the political candidates with their sterile, ingratiating speeches, through the social scientists with their unwieldy terminology,through the ad men with their ready, mindless sales pitches, right down to the proffessional athletes with their trugid comments, to the small restaurants using foreign names to spice up prosaic dishes, to the man on the street whose conversation is studded with "Y'know" and "right...