Word: cliches
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...strategy to those ends is no mystery. Indeed, it has been repeated so often that it has the hollow resonance of a cliché: The U.S. must increase domestic energy supplies while decreasing consumption. Studies by the Ford Foundation and the Federal Energy Administration present the options in detail. They leave no doubt that energy conservation is possible with some sacrifice. All that is lacking is a firm decision to commit the U.S. to a course of action...
What is "the media"? Usually, a contumacious cliché. Often, a grammatical abomination. The word is eternally plural - literally, more than one "medium." In the current issue of Columbia Journalism Review] University of Wisconsin Communication Professor George Bailey deplores the persistent and growing tendency to use the word with singular incorrectness. Echoing a TIME Essay (June 7, 1971), he attributes that offense to something more ominous than doubtful command of the mother tongue. "People who write or say 'The media is against Nixon' or 'The media exploits children' actually conceptualize the media as a singular, unitary...
...central characters. The tale of the shrewd French trapper Pasquinel and his Scottish partner McKeag becomes a roving chronicle of the West from St. Louis to the Rockies in the early fur-trading days. In a later set piece, Michener brings pageantry to the ancient cliché of the cattle drovers beset by thirst and outlaws on the long trail from Jacks-borough, Texas, to the South Platte...
...American press probably graver than any faults displayed during Watergate is the lack of expertise in many fields, a failure to develop the techniques necessary to inform the public on highly complicated subjects, to lay out the alternative choices and possible solutions in an increasingly baffling world. Cliché thinking and reporting are a far greater danger than bias...
...relationship between the occult numerology of the kabbalah and his 50-minute score. In fact, the Dybbuk music is a bland, pseudo-modern pastiche-a murmuring of Mahler here, a shriek of Stravinsky there, stray leitmotifs of Hasidic melody to suggest ethnicity. Robbins' choreography matches the music, sometimes cliché for cliché. When the orchestra explodes in a burst of Yiddish song, dancers sway sinuously, as if at a ghetto wedding. There are great yaps of brass at Big Moments of high stress; on stage, the performers thrust splayed hands to the skies or to the audience...