Word: utilitarianism
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...festive scenes he creates. Meyreles calls himself a "happy person" and believes he spreads those good feelings. "The nice thing is when people write letters saying. 'I was really down and out but I saw you and you just made my day," he says. But despite the utilitarian role which he attempts to play, Meyreles soberly considers a society where performances like his provide such bright moments...
...Splendid Art of Opera is in just such updatings, which are the results of exhaustive research. Unfortunately, Mordden, a former editor of Opera News, has a brass ear for language: one composer, he writes, "will have to wow 'em pronto." His book is less pleasurable than utilitarian, something to thumb through for answers rather than for diversion...
...innards were those of a utilitarian Ford Falcon, but its shell was sleek and jaunty enough to make it the only auto ever to win a design award from Tiffany & Co. Not even Lee lacocca, the Mustang's chief progenitor and now chairman of Chrysler Corp., expected it to be the most popular new car of the decade. The first weekend the Mustang went on sale, 4 million people visited Ford showrooms. Over the next two years, the company built 1.28 million Mustangs. Young people snapped them up because they looked racy, yet cost as little...
Modern letters are hasty and utilitarian, usually meant for one pair of eyes only. But by that token the best of them, like Woolf's, are also vibrant with immediacy, intimacy and often indiscretion ("Why," she asks, "is it so pleasant to damn one's friends?"). With her aristocratic sense of decorum she may have felt that their very privacy was what made them unpublishable. If so, she failed to reckon on this age's voracious, ransacking appetite for all that is private in a writer's life. As significant as her novels...
...oceans. Rosie the Riveter donned them for her shift at a World War II defense plant. Generations of American children have learned to toddle in them. They have been a trendy, casual, adult costume for the past few years. Now, with acrobatic élan, jumpsuits have leaped from utilitarian to U, from convenient to chic. At pricey department stores and boutiques across the country, dressy jumpsuits are, well, jumping off the racks. They are even in vogue for evening wear. At this month's opening of the San Francisco Opera season, one of the nation's few remaining...