Word: cliches
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Obligatory Cliché. Humphrey's plight for the moment seemed to be that of the lame duck's ugly duckling-although the President himself was not acting noticeably lame in such matters as Supreme Court appointments and foreign affairs.* Humphrey is hobbled by his identification with the Johnson regime and unable as yet to reassert the highly individual and creative style that marked his congressional career; he worries not so much about the August convention as about November, when a Republican candidate might foreseeably walk into the White House over the wreckage of the Democratic Party. Humphrey...
...world's policemen," said Humphrey, echoing what is fast becoming the year's obligatory political cliché. He emphasized reconciliation with Russia and closer ties with Europe...
When a truth grows old, it becomes a clich.è When a clichè grows old, it becomes a theme for a socially "significant" movie. In The Man with the Balloons, the clichè is man's diminution in an increasingly mechanistic society...
Plump and prosperous at the age of 45, ex-Middleweight Champ Rocky Graziano knocks out little more than clichés these days as a TV "personality." His old nemesis, Tony Zale, also ex-champ, and now 54, reserves his clinches for an occasional guest in the Manhattan pub where he works as "greeter." So when the two retired fighters met last week in a flack-fixed rematch, their panting efforts damaged nothing but the memories of the three Pier Six brawls-among the most savage in all boxing history-that they slugged out from 1946 to 1948. Graziano...
...usual mixture of relief and pride, anticipating graduate work, careers-or the draft. But many of this year's college and university commencements were surrounded by a palpable atmosphere of tension. Conscious of their newfound power, students eyed their speakers with more than the usual contempt for cliché and platitude. Wary orators appeared to treat the graduates of '68 with respect rather than condescension, and pleaded, in effect, that they reason together as adults. What many of them wanted to reason about was the phenomenon of student unrest...