Word: cliches
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...rising crime rate, the breakdown of the cities and the crumbling of mass transportation. His view-widely welcomed at present-that Government should do less and that national thrift is in order could begin to seem to many people like a do-nothing policy. Along with this, "charisma"-a cliché not recently heard-might return to the political vocabulary...
...making of America was the unmaking of these clichés. Here it was discovered that no people was quite as peculiar as Old World nationalist leaders had urged them to believe. You became an American by coming to a strange land and learning to speak somebody else's language. Broken English would be the only tongue that really expressed our history. No wonder, then, that education became our national fetish, for the public schoolroom was the frontier of the mind, where children of older nations learned to speak a common language...
...make $100,000 a year or more from their looks. "You either have it or you don't," says Carrie Donovan of Harper's Bazaar. "A beauty must be able to project herself, be dramatic, an actress." Hollywood Starlet Deborah Raffin, 22, a lean blonde with almost cliché American looks, has projected herself with more effect on the covers of glossy magazines than in the movies. Picked at age 19 to play Liv Ullmann's daughter in 40 Carats, she also starred in the uproariously bad Once Is Not Enough. Deborah insists on being identified when...
...economy while leaving the market free. Some of his ideas are familiar pleas of liberal reformers: he would have the Government strive to improve opportunities for the poor through more job-training programs and make certain that all low-income families receive food stamps, housing allowances and Medicaid. "The cliché should at least be validated," he says. "The market should not be allowed to legislate life and death...
...worldly knowledge that no policy will work without compromise. But the authors believe that official silence and mouselike retirement are often the result of a national emphasis on team play at all costs. Resignation argues that "not rocking the boat," "not blowing the whistle," and a dozen similar clichés have become part of the psyche of many Americans...