Word: cliches
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Abandoned Clichés. Many a battle-scarred unionist snorts at Dave McDonald's airs and the fact that, never baring his chest to the furnaces, he came to the Steelworkers' presidency on the white-collar route. Yet McDonald is, in fact, far more in tune with his times than his classconscious critics. In the phenomenal growth of the competitive U.S. economy over the past four years, most of the old labor-management clichés have gone out the window. Labor and management still argue and labor still strikes, but enlightened leaders on both sides know more...
...literary clichés that takes a long time dying is the notion that prostitutes have hearts of gold and that bums are somehow more steeped in humanity than people who work. No living U.S. writer has done more to keep the idea alive, and no one has done it with more literary authority than Chicago Novelist Nelson Algren. His Man with the Golden Arm, 1949's best U.S. novel, dealt with a sordid world of petty crime and drug addiction that shocked many a queasy reader, but it was so firmly rimmed by compassion and understanding that...
...last cliché died away, a sheepish realization dawned that about all the U.S. had witnessed was a demonstration of how tautly its racial nerves are stretched. There was, nonetheless, a silver lining: some of the Southern bus lines that prematurely took down their segregation signs found the new arrangement working so well that they decided to leave things that...
...Solemn Moment. By now around the world, great leagues of newsprint sought to bestir readers with a picture of the great events, painted in shades ranging from the jaded blue notes of burlesque to the cloying clichés of a Victorian novelette. London's Daily Express front-paged the news that the American radio sponsor for the wedding broadcast was the Peter Pan brassière company. Saloon-Gossipist Earl Wilson informed his readers that "Rainier and Grace were real smoochy at the party for bridesmaids." Other reporters, sending out breathless bulletins, had a hard time agreeing...
...most venerable cliché in U.S. humor is the mother-in-law joke. December Bride (Mon. 9:30 p.m., CBS), which translates the joke and variations to television, has astounded the industry by elbowing its way into the top ten. Nielsen and Trendex place Bride No. 5; ARB has it tied for sixth (with Disneyland and I've Got a Secret). Videodex and Pulse report it "consistently...