Word: clicheed
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The U.S. book trade's midsummer, or muggier-than-usual, season has begun. Mrs. Murphy, the July choice of the Book-of-the-Month Club, dutifully touted by B.-of-M.'s Bookpicker Clifton Fadiman as "compassionate" and "powerful," is a clumsy, cliche-sodden version of The Lost...
The movie labors under two handicaps. First, there have been a good many war pictures in which The Group is the hero, and the face of the nation is portrayed through characters chosen from all walks of the nation's life. The curse of this narrative cliché can...
And damnable it is to poor Aurélien. Two fat volumes after he falls for little, country-bred Berenice, this normally irresistible Paris playboy has hardly mussed her hair. Berenice is waiting for the perfect spiritual as well as physical love-though willing to take on a casual lover...
Some form of Federal aid to supplement state funds is needed then, if teaching salaries are to be placed on a satisfactory national level. If a state has shown that, even after readjustment of its tax structure and budget, it is still unable to supply more funds towards educational expenses...
This session could have failed. The favored cliche when it opened was that after all it was convened only to adopt rules, approve budgets, organize. But, even without the more explosive matters which surged up later, these were testing tasks. Performing them, the General Assembly and its committees proved that...