Word: clichees
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Admissions officers claim that they wanted to make their message to prospective Harvard students more complete. In addition, the entire notion of Harvard as Diversity U. had gotten just a wee bit tired. "It had gotten to be an unbelievable cliche," says Director of Admissions Marlyn McGrath Lewis '70. "We...
"It had gotten to be an unbelievable cliche. We are sick to death of that phrase," says director of admissions Marlyn McGrath Lewis '70. "I thought [the new sentence] was a bit of a curveball, a variation, variety."
Havel reads extremely well in translation, and neither Tom Stoddard's English version nor Rouse's production lose the author's nascent sarcasm. Fraught with cliche, the play seems to make fun of the postmodern genre it places itself in; in Rouse's interpretation, the language surfaces with such hollow...
The men's water polo team (12-7 overall, 1-3 Ivy) found out the hard truth of that Dierdorfian cliche' this fall as it lost myriads of "should have been" contests against some of the nation's best.
This years batch of commencement speeches are like most commencement speeches: cliche, vague, effete, boring. Instead of serving up banal generalizations, I wish they would tell us something we don't know, maybe even drop a political bombshell like the Marshall Plan. They should offer some practical advice or, at...