Word: cliches
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Dereliction of Duty. White also clipped 20 examples of newspaper clichés and standard phrases out of six Boston papers, sent his journalism students through a night bakery, a waiting room, a steel mill and a railroad station, to see how well the phrases were understood. Samples: bipartisan foreign policy, act of overt aggression, fusillade of shots, dereliction of duty, titular head of the party, diplomat without portfolio, deficit spending, eschewing presidential ambitions, policy of containment. The average reader got nearly half the phrases wrong. Even "bipartisan foreign policy" had hard going; some of those questioned thought it meant...
...firing as "good riddance" of an "arrogant militarist," they discovered that Moscow wanted them to concentrate more on smearing Harry Truman for keeping the Korean war going. Secretary General Eugene Dennis, now out on $30,000 appeal bail as one of the eleven convicted Communist conspirators, issued a cliché-packed manifesto to set the comrades right...
...leave, the Communists organized a mass meeting at which his "punishment" could be "popularly and unanimously demanded." The next day, soldiers marched the bishop through the streets before taking him off-presumably to Canton-to await trial. The usual mob of students was on hand with the usual mob clichés: "Down with Bishop Ford! Down with American imperialism...
...hour-long prank is dangerous; this one was sheer disaster, and closed at week's end. Playwright Rice seemed to forget that cliches of satire can be every bit as mildewed as clichés of stagecraft. Result: an evening of heavy bowling balls that collided and careened while the tenpins remained untouched...
...Republicans in the nation's capital jammed Uline Arena to buy a boxed chicken supper, gaze at drum majorettes and applaud an aged American Indian in spectacles and war bonnet. With partisan joy they listened to a series of grim, lowbrow political messages reeking with campaign clich...