Word: cliches
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Those who agree with the tiresome cliché that there is so much to accomplish on earth, hence why bother to go into space, were not moved by the occasion. Others took it as a metaphor for all kinds of human progress, which has received an undeservedly bad name. As Goddard wrote to H.G. Wells in 1932, " 'Aiming at the stars,' both literally and figuratively, is a problem to occupy generations, so that no matter how much progress one makes, there is always the thrill of just beginning...
After the boom, slump. Millet had died in 1875, having greatly influenced Gauguin, Cézanne, Seurat, blue-period Picasso and especially Vincent Van Gogh. Later, modernism lost interest in images of rural labor; they were derided as sentimental masscult. Millet sank from view, leaving behind one obdurate cliché: The Angelus, in its tacky frame, on every parlor wall...
Jerry Ford has never met a payroll. It would be one of the ironies of our time if the President was undone at the polls and one cause of his fall was that gallant cliché from the conservative past, a past he has evoked in his battle against Big Government...
...playing beautiful-girl-friend parts. I'm getting choosy," asserted Maud Adams, 30, Swedish-born starlet and former cover girl for Elle and Ladies' Home Journal. After secondary billing in six pictures, including The Man with the Golden Gun and Rollerball, Adams insists in the traditional publicity cliché that she is ready for some roles that dramatize her emotional depths rather than her physical projections. "I'm grateful I have good looks because they brought me into the business. But I want a different image." Then why keep posing for those cheesecake publicity pictures? Her startlingly...
...Wilson, like other literary revisionists, overreact? Philip Mason thinks so. A veteran of 20 years in the Indian civil service, Mason is neither a first-rate biographer nor a first-rate critic. Still, stolidly and finally convincingly, he builds a case for a Kipling who stands between the old clichés and Wilson's anti-clichés-a Kipling rather magnificent in his contradictions...