Word: cliches
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Deadline avoids such clichés of movie journalism as the whisky-soaked reporter who shouts "Stop the presses!" It even presents some vigorously authentic city-room atmosphere. But, for a picture that aims to be a factual exposition of the free American press, it indulges in too much cinematic sensationalism, emerges as little more than a second-rate film about the fourth estate...
...answer reached Beverley (like most of his answers) in the form of a three-decker cliché. He was unhappy because "the clouds were gathering over Europe ... the tragedy of Geneva hastening to its final act ... the disciples of rearmament beginning to raise their voices." And what, if anything, could a playboy like Beverley do to disperse the clouds, delay the final act, silence the raised voices? All I Could Never Be, Nichols' second autobiographical book, tells exactly what Beverley did; but, as it is well spiced with rose-geranium anecdotes and set against a backdrop of Mayfair...
...Some [pupils] have difficulty verbalizing about the esthetic experience. But often their gropings make for the fresh insight . . . The war on the cliché is continuous, but poetry is not written by mere avoidance of the cliche. Little theorizing about rhythm, but a constant reading aloud to hear rhythms, to get a notion of how language flows. Essentially, this is teaching by ear, by suggestion, by insinuation...
...startling contrast to the dog-eared picture of Hawaii which most mainlanders (including Senators) carry around in their minds. According to the cliché, Hawaii is the home of hula dancers, ukulele players and dark-skinned surf riders, the stage for potential treason from the inscrutable Oriental-American, the impregnable bastion of Pearl Harbor, and the domain of those ancient monopolists, the Big Five...
...accept the cliché about the cleverness of the Chinese as fact, and I am prepared to believe a really ingenious forger capable of almost anything, but I simply do not credit your story [TIME, Sept. 24] that "many of the money orders were small, and the amounts were often changed by clever forgers, e.g., $1.37 to $1,379.44." Any such tidy kiting of U.S. Postal Money Orders is completely outside the realm of possibility, inasmuch as the absolute maximum value of each...