Word: cliches
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...evening largely lacks lure, it is perhaps because Rodgers & Hammerstein have gone at show business with no pungency or point of view-as fainthearted satirists, routine sentimentalists. Where they might illuminate, they merely echo; and their show cannot be excused its multitude of clichés because a few are kidded. Me and Juliet is neither magical about its subject, nor the McCoy...
...economy and pungency of the Nash poem at its best. One of the best in this collection is The Visit. Here, in two dozen lines, is the whole armor of Ogden Nash-the sardonic side glance, the aptly distorted word, the poised cold shoulder, the burial of victims in clichés of their own choosing...
Negative to Positive. Some classical economists, in full agreement with this enthusiasm for revising some obsolete clichés about Bigness, would suggest that the way for the Government to encourage Big Business is to let it alone. Lilienthal takes a different tack. He proposes that Congress pass a Basic Economic Act pro claiming its prime concern with "productivity and the ethical and economic distribution of this productivity." Lilienthal's law would automatically repeal "the Sherman and Clayton acts, and all other existing laws, administrative policies and judicial interpretations of the antitrust laws" insofar as they were inconsistent with...
What saved Lewis from becoming a bore was his love for the American scene, and his self-perception. In an obituary he once composed for himself, he described Sinclair Lewis as "a cheerful pathologist, exposing the clichés and sentimentalities of his day"-and then added: "It is evident that Mr. Lewis smote . . . sentimentality because he knew himself to be, at heart, a sentimentalist...
...simple fact that he is his own man-a rare thing for an artist, even in the U.S. and in the 20th century. His painting ideas are fresh-minted, borrowed from nobody (with the possible and rare exception of Orozco). He never tries to buy attention with smooth-rubbed clichés. He suppresses every detail that fails to contribute to the immediate impact of his pictures, makes every gesture count...