Word: cliches
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...incongruity in the grandson of Uncle Henry reading with an air of furious sincerity a speech ghostwritten for him by Lewis Frank Jr., the debonair son of a Detroit Christmas tinsel manufacturer. The Frank speeches, so different from Wallace's own rambling style, bristle with Communist clichés, un-deviatingly follow the Communist line...
These quiet stories of middle-class Jewish families in New York may seem at first almost too transparently told. But most readers will soon recognize the art in the telling, the overtones of irony and pathos produced by the right clichés, in the right places. With these stories Poet Delmore Schwartz should take his place among the dozen or so most accomplished young U.S. writers...
...were supposed to make the decisions, were in fact like a studio audience at a radio broadcast: expected to register, by their applause and their switched-on demonstrations, their approval of a dramatic show on stage that was frankly being played to a larger audience. Every smirk, gesture, posture, cliché and evasion was repeated for one medium after another. The final absurdity was achieved when Chairman Joe Martin solemnly announced Governor Warren's nomination for the vice presidency twice-once for the audience, once for the newsreels (they missed it the first time...
...Republican delegates and the party's retinue moved into the world of the political deal and the patriotic cliché, Democrat Harry Truman fought an almost singlehanded battle on the West Coast to convince his party not only that he should be the nominee for President, but that he can win (see The Presidency). The time had come again. The great game of U.S. politics, its deadly seriousness concealed from the unobservant by circus trappings and spread-eagle oratory, was moving swiftly and dramatically toward its quadrennial climax...
Author Kendrick, a well-known whodunit writer (Blind Man's Bluff), now apparently setting out for bigger game, has bagged it. This cliché-clogged historical novel is the July choice of the Literary Guild...