Word: cliches
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Republic of Letters such literary greats as Henry Fielding, Johnson, Boswell, Gibbon and Byron appear freshly alluring. Author Kronenberger can take the measure of bent, spiteful Alexander Pope and awaken fresh interest in "the master of the scalpel and the poisoned dart [who] reclothed clichés of thought so vividly that they long ago became cliches of language." He can persuade the reader that gabby Letter Writer Lady Mary Wortley Montagu is worth another whirl: "She had very few friends, but time was one of them." And he can be shrewd about such old critically-untouchables as Robinson Crusoe...
...lived in the shade of the great Churchillian oak. Eden has had to conquer a painful shyness and a distaste for the rough and tumble of Tory politics. After a typical Eden speech, delivered with its customary earnestness. Winston Churchill once grumped: "My God, he used every cliché in the English language except 'God is love' and 'Gentlemen will please adjust their dress before leaving.' " But as an orator, Eden, though he casts no spells, conveys conviction...
Inside the Bundeshaus the members' gong sounded, summoning 151 Socialists and 333 members of Chancellor Konrad Adenauer's Christian-Democrat coalition to the climactic debate on West German rearmament. For five years the debate had raged, setting German against German, until the arguments were worn to clichés and all that was left was passion. But though the Deputies' minds were made up, and the result a foregone conclusion, more than 50 eager politicians had put down their names to speak. The debate was, in effect, the last opportunity for each side to arrange the record...
Wedding Breakfast (by Theodore Reeves) treats the romances of two Jewish sisters who share a Manhattan flat. Ruth is a salesgirl engaged to a bookkeeper: the couple is patiently building toward marriage with a joint bank account, and they talk in comic clichés. Stella, the other sister (Lee Grant), has risen somewhat snootily above her background: a college graduate with a magazine job, she was engaged to a doctor who has just married someone else. She is down in the mouth when she meets the bookkeeper's bright cousin Ralph (Anthony Franciosa), who sells hardware in Buffalo...
From Peking and Moscow one day last week, the Communist radio trumpeted the news of "the seven accords" between the old and the new giants of Communism. The accords were clothed in clichés: "The negotiations took place in an atmosphere of sincere friendship." In bombast: "The continued occupation by the U.S. of [Formosa] ... is incompatible with peace in the Far East." In sweet talk: "The Soviet Union and the Chinese People's Republic will continue to build their relations with . . . other countries on the basis of a strict observance of ... territorial integrity...