Word: cliches
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...recent spleen on faithless wives of overseas servicemen [TiME, Aug. 6] just barely deserves the dignity of a reply. Nothing is so pitiful as a woman maligning her own sex, and at a time when womanhood should stand together for protection from those who think in little clich...
Senator Taft fought vigorously and well for most of four days. In the clinches he pulled several clichés ("we will just pour $6 billion down a rat hole"). But his infighting was good: he had carefully studied the involved Bretton Woods proposals, which many a Senator obviously had not. At times, Senator Taft had Administration proponents stuck on fine points of the agreement's $8.8 billion monetary fund and $9.1 billion international bank structures (TIME, July...
...brief introduction Wolcott Gibbs pays a toastmaster's tribute to John O'Hara's remarkably accurate ear, to his clear perception of the difference between satire and burlesque, to his characters who, though they are "great ones for clichés, which they usually get just a little wrong," are never caricatures. O'Hara's virtue, says Gibbs, is that he is thoroughly at home an the varied worlds between 52nd Street and Hollywood Boulevard, in one of which "every lady is a tramp and every man an enemy," and in another, "it is possible...
...soldiers. The saying that the U.S. Army abroad consists of "7,000,000 isolationists" got to be a cliché last year. It probably has the faults of most cliches. Last week a TIME correspondent, freshly arrived in Britain from the U.S., told of an impromptu session with hundreds of homesick airmen. What he found was a deep concern in both domestic and foreign affairs, unmatched by anything he had recently seen or heard of at home...
Rundstedt also attacked, drove desperately and skillfully at Monschau, at the northeast corner of Luxembourg, and at two points farther south, not far from the Moselle. First Army headquarters declared that some penetrations were "sealed off" (a familiar cliché in German communiques), but the enemy slid away from the seal-offs, advanced alongside. Prisoners, of whom the First seized more than a thousand the first day, said they had been told they would be "in Paris by Christmas.'' Some Germans were so inflamed with savagery by the switch from retreat to attack that they murdered U.S. prisoners...