Word: cliched
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...summer program whose concerts normally concentrate on works of living composers, took the unusual step of devoting seven days to Webern. The performances demonstrated how much of Webern's vocabulary has passed into the everyday musical language. As such, they sometimes sounded like a lexicon of contemporary clichés: jagged leaps of melody, pointillistic instrumental textures, dryly intellectual twelve-tone patterns. At other times they underlined qualities in Webern's music that have remained fresh and inimitable to this day: delicacy, astringent lyricism, nearly inhuman purity of craftsmanship...
Obligatory Cliché. Humphrey's plight for the moment seemed to be that of the lame duck's ugly duckling-although the President himself was not acting noticeably lame in such matters as Supreme Court appointments and foreign affairs.* Humphrey is hobbled by his identification with the Johnson regime and unable as yet to reassert the highly individual and creative style that marked his congressional career; he worries not so much about the August convention as about November, when a Republican candidate might foreseeably walk into the White House over the wreckage of the Democratic Party. Humphrey...
...world's policemen," said Humphrey, echoing what is fast becoming the year's obligatory political cliché. He emphasized reconciliation with Russia and closer ties with Europe...
When a truth grows old, it becomes a clich.è When a clichè grows old, it becomes a theme for a socially "significant" movie. In The Man with the Balloons, the clichè is man's diminution in an increasingly mechanistic society...
Plump and prosperous at the age of 45, ex-Middleweight Champ Rocky Graziano knocks out little more than clichés these days as a TV "personality." His old nemesis, Tony Zale, also ex-champ, and now 54, reserves his clinches for an occasional guest in the Manhattan pub where he works as "greeter." So when the two retired fighters met last week in a flack-fixed rematch, their panting efforts damaged nothing but the memories of the three Pier Six brawls-among the most savage in all boxing history-that they slugged out from 1946 to 1948. Graziano...