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Though he is clearly talented, Novelist Ayer has written a book that is long on artiness and short on life, full of mincing chatter and burdened with too complex a structure. His final approach to his people is as simple and inadequate as a cliche: the rich, he feels, stink...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: Claustrophobia Acres | 5/14/1951 | See Source »

Crime Photographer (alternate Thurs. 10:30 p.m., CBS-TV), after an eight-year stretch as a radio cops & robbers show, moves to television without leaving a single clue or cliche behind. News Photographer Casey, as played by Richard Carlyle, wears his hat on the back of his head, is a...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Radio: The New Shows | 4/30/1951 | See Source »

The usual cliche applied to the second largest House is that "you can make friends if you want, but nobody will force himself upon you," and this holds true.

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Tradition Keynotes Lowell, Gives Dignity, Individuality | 3/17/1951 | See Source »

The idea of Commentary, says Editor Cohen, was "not to tell people what to think but to give them the material to think with." It is "libertarian," but against the "liberal cliches and stereotypes which pass as a substitute for thinking." One cliche Commentary most strongly opposed from the beginning...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Press: Magazine of Quality | 1/29/1951 | See Source »

Men, Women & Actors. Of all the frustrated groups in Hollywood-executives, producers, directors, writers-the class Anthropologist Powdermaker seems to feel most sympathy for is the actors. Their fellow workers regard them with "pitying condescension . . . contempt, hostility and hatred." Says she: "No one respects them. The cliche that there are...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Cinema: Curious Native Customs | 10/16/1950 | See Source »

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