Word: clicheed
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HARVARD should take a lesson from John Stuart Mill. If we do not listen to abhorrent ideas, our own are valueless. They become totems that we carry around simply because everyone does. To quote a popular cliche, the essence of intellectual progress is the clash of ideas: when there is...
So it is with most of the art in "Facing History: The Black Image in American Art 1710-1940," the new exhibition at the Corcoran Gallery of Art in Washington (on view through March 25). Anyone who visits the exhibition with hopes of high aesthetic pleasure will be disappointed. There...
IT IS a tired cliche to describe the 1980s as the era of selfishness, ostentation and greed. Ever since Nancy Reagan undertook to redecorate the White House and purchase new china while the rest of the country suffered the worst unemployment since the Great Depression, word has been out that...
As Secretary of State James Baker has said, "No cliche does Gorbachev justice. To say he is a piece of work is an understatement." Adds Republican Senator Alan Simpson of Wyoming: "I once told Gorbachev that he was a no- bullshit kind of guy, and he replied that he knew...
In order to believe the Soviet Union is capable of waging and quite possibly winning a war against the West, one has to accept as gospel a hoary and dubious cliche about the U.S.S.R.: the place is a hopeless mess where nothing works, with the prominent and crucial exception of...