Word: clicheed
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> A forceful, two-story post-and-beam structure, with walls of diagonal redwood siding, brings space and plastic interest to what would otherwise be that modern cliche, the box house. The J. H. Pomeroy Co. is selling the house at its Tahoe Keys development at Lake Tahoe, Calif., for approximately...
The clinical pathologist runs the laboratories where blood tests are made, makes many of the tissue examinations himself, and studies minute changes in obscure body fluids. Both these classes of pathologists are "doctors' doctors." In their own cliche, they are the ones who have the last word. Farthest removed...
F. R. Leavis' Richmond Lecture, delivered in the spring of 1962, is perhaps the least important of the three critiques. Though Leavis claims in his preface "no personal animus" against Snow, his criticism is too emotional, too insulting to be anything but a personal attack. "The Two Cultures exhibits an...
Jackie Mason is a 32-year-old rabbi who has given up the temple and now tells jokes with a message. Too often the message scrapes through, but the humor does not. He is a dedicated slayer of cliche philosophies. "Don't change horses in midstream," he scoffs. "Did...
- A cutback in U.S. bases overseas. An even older Moscow propaganda cliche. The U.S. has shut down missile bases in Italy and Turkey when the arrival of Polaris submarines made the launching sites obsolete; other bases will close only if they become superfluous.