Word: cliches
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...current cliché from the political lexicon-"the people's right to know"-marks the battlefield but does not exactly illuminate it. This lofty phrase was first used a quarter of a century ago by the late Kent Cooper, then executive director of the Associated Press. "It means," he explained, "that the Government may not, and the newspapers and broadcasters should not, by any method whatever, curb delivery of any information essential to the public welfare and enlightenment." The Constitution, as it happens, does not provide for any such right. The courts, moreover, have never interpreted the First Amendment...
...cliches are worn but enduring: Italian Catholics seldom go to church but worship the Pope. German Catholics are fond enough of church, but mostly in terms of the family and the home: the good German hausfrau is supposed to dedicate herself with equal concern to Kinder, Kuche and Kirche-children, kitchen and church. Now two new polls-a major study of Catholics in Rome and a massive poll of West German Catholics-challenge the validity of the old clichés. Germans show a deeper spiritual sensitivity and more concern for their fellow man than they are generally given credit...
Item: Jean Anouilh, with his third play to be running on the boulevards this year, is the kind of illusionist who pretends to show the audience just how it's done. In Don't Wake Madame, he turns some show-business clichés upside down with his accustomed skill, but only to shake out the last sticky-sweet drops of sentimentality...
...approach but rather a superficial paste job. To begin with, you lifted a casethe one about Mrs. Louisa Alvarofrom my book The Negligent Doctor without realizing that although the story was true enough, her name was fictitious. But most important, the article recites all the clichés advanced by the American Medical Association without taking the trouble to check them...
...concentrated in the service trades and government jobs, where layoffs have been fewer than in manufacturing. Another is that there are not many blacks in the depressed aerospace industry. In addition, black factory workers by now have built up some seniority, so that they no longer fit the cliché of "last hired, first fired...