Word: cliches
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...fighting the battle of democracy, we are fighting for freedom, of course we are. Our opponents fight for the leadership principle, the Führer principle. With them the objective has also become a catchword, a cliché. It must be quite clear that you will only get to practical solutions, in the end, if you have a good mixture of both democracy and freedom on the one hand and of leadership on the other...
...Manhattan art theater, is still packing the place after nine weeks, drew the epithet "delightful" from leather-mouthed Walter Winchell, and has just been nationally released. With nothing more than their bare hands, a little intelligence, tenderness and characterization, the creators of Jeannie tackle a grey-haired comic cliché-The Innocent Abroad-and come up with the best light comedy of the year. Jeannie McLean, a sharp-chinned, homely-pretty Scottish country girl, 26 and single, decides before she buries herself in domestic service, to squander her father's "entire fortune" (a bequest...
Prefaced by a characteristic Ryan cliché, "Through the Pages Following Hereafter Pass the Most Beautiful Checker Games in the World," and sprinkled with un-Shakesperian asides, he unfolds 232 pages of diagrams and diagnoses. He also expounds for pages on three of the most treacherous openings ever devised: the Edinburgh Single, a deciding factor in more match and tournament games than any other known opening; the Octopus, whose "manifold tentacles . . . have ensnared many of the game's ablest critics"; and Oliver's Twister, a baffler ever since Manhattan's Oliver J. Mauro laid down its basic...
...Russians are conscious of this danger. It was a danger which U.S. citizens, as wartime partners in a United Nations not yet efficiently united, would have to face and think about, not in vague and fearful clichés nor in sentimental idealistics, but as citizens of the postwar world...
...handle, with the expertness required for delivering a two-headed baby, the aching half-lunacies which turn up as a normal part of U.S. life. They use one of the rangiest and most microscopically exact vocabularies in modern letters-a vocabulary drawn entirely from those ancient, current and emergent clichés of which Flaubert and Joyce were both collectors and which are as diagnostic of a civilization as any ten theses on the Zeitgeist, and a thousand times as entertaining...