Word: clicheed
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What is really needed, said University of California's Chemist Joel Hildebrand in a speech called "Education in the Light of the Satellites," is to wipe away the distortions of John Dewey's thinking that have led so many schools to fall for the cults of life adjustment...
Functional planning and flexibility of design are the proudest claims of modern architecture. The era when a Matthews or Weld Hall might rise like some disoriented Phoenix from the bosom of Harvard Yard is supposedly gone forever. Then, in the midst of enlightenment, a great seven-story cliche makes its...
Arkansas was a question mark. There seemed little reason to expect trouble. But TIME'S Washington bureau reported disquieting rumors about the plans of Arkansas' Governor Orval Faubus. To Little Rock went Chicago Bureau Correspondent Jack Olsen, an old Arkansas hand (he reported the story of Arkansas'...
If Amis and the rest of his school part company, it will be because he is its only conscientious craftsman and its only notable wit. Even so, his humor travels no better than the average joke in Punch, and U.S. editions of Lucky Jim and a second novel. That Uncertain...
He pursues her from New York to London with flowers and favors, and, above all, by masterfully playing on her sense of pity-for his pride is so constituted that he can grovel to attain his ends. It is possibly the first time in fiction that a thoroughly unprepossessing man...