Word: cliches
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...Worth Tuttle Hedden's Love Is a Wound, a thoroughly honest and quietly dramatic tale of slavish and unrequited love in North Carolina. By & large, U.S. writers seemed to serve up fewer wormwood cocktails, fewer canapes of neurosis and despair, than in previous years. A selfconsciously written, cliché-laden, but interesting novel, Executive Suite, by Cameron Hawley, even dared to draw an understanding picture of a U.S. corporation and of a businessman who was not a cross between Babbitt and Captain Bligh...
...fact is that what TIME calls the "egg-head rebellion" was a perfectly understandable revolt on the part of intellectuals against Eisenhower's platitudinous, cliché-ridden campaign oratory and against his unprincipled embrace, "for the sake of party unity," of the most reactionary elements.... TIME performs no service to anyone by implying that that revolt should be merely discounted as "the desertion of the eggheads." Why intellectuals turned from Ike could bear some study, less snide comments from TIME...
...economy. He begs for a reassessment of present U.S. policy in Europe. He raises instead the concept of a Gibraltar of freedom in the Western Hemisphere. He denies that this is "isolation"; the word is a "smear" used to squelch debate, he says. He deplores such clichés, "which freeze thought...
...week, sometimes two, on rare occasions has done three. "If TIME'S reviews are different from most, it's not because we consciously try to make them different," he says. "The writing criteria are the same as those that govern the rest of the magazine: keep the cliché out - both in phraseology and idea; write a review that is interesting to read for itself; tell whether the reviewer thinks the book is worth reading, whether it has anything...
Though tied at 3 to 3 at the end of the first quarter, the Yardling began to co-ordinate their play in the second frame and scored four goals, adding two in the third and one in the fourth quarter to clich the win. Although pleased, Coach Bob Pickett commented, "They still have a long...