Word: clicheed
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Britain's C. P. Snow, who has paid more attention than most writers to modern organization, believes that the threat to the individual is vastly exaggerated. "It is a cliche to think that persons in organization society are much less interesting than romantic rebels," he says. "That is a superficial...
That grisly hospital cliche, "The operation was successful but the patient died," is as out of style as the street clothes worn in the 19th century operating room. Even as the men-in-white of the 1930s have switched into the soft greys and greens and blues of today'...
The quality of Alfred Whitney Griswold was that he gave vividness and authority to ideals that other men often make trite or fanatic. The cliche-cursed goal of "excellence" in education seemed credible and attainable when Yale's President Griswold spoke of it in brief and reasonable words. Academic...
Theatrically, the situation seems almost as old as the profession. Dramatically, the problem of the prostitute with a heart of gold is not so much that she is a cliche as that she cannot ply her trade. Action is busily evaded in stage business, and the talk drifts into the...
Of more importance, an almost complete lack of individual attention further undermines Wilson's relations with his team. It has become practically a cliche in Harvard basketball circles that no one ever improves while playing under Wilson.