Word: cliches
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...community has been a target of Ramparts before: an article last April lambasted Michigan State University for providing cover for five CIA agents during a federally financed project to train South Vietnamese policemen. Predictably, its 10,000-word article on the U.S. National Student Association was larded with pejorative clichés about "the sinister specter" of CIA mixing with a student group...
What attacks Generals fatally and finally is neither its cliché-ridden script nor its miscast stars, but the gemütlich approach of Director Anatole Litvak. The slick editing and the bright, bold colors seem less to polish the picture than to varnish it, and they cannot cover the film's faults. The waifs of German-occupied Warsaw are too plump and well padded, the armies seem too clean and well mannered. And the officers are too self-consciously symbolic of Germany's decadence and decency, grossness and grace. Somewhere beneath it all is a plausible plot...
Unproductive Clichés. One key to the ultimate success of this process of partnership and interpenetration is the business community. Only recently, a paranoid distrust poisoned relations between the private and public sectors of the nation. There remain quite a few holdouts in both camps, but the instances of cooperation between the two are growing, notably in the space program and in the development of new educational tools...
Apparently unaware of the President's plans and intentions themselves, the members of the Administration have been reduced to making meaningless and sometimes embarrassing noises in public. Last week Secretary of Commerce John T. Connor predicted an expanding economy, but the only cliché he dared use to buttress his faith was that the Government would continue "a sound mix of fiscal and monetary policies." Labor Secretary Willard Wirtz, attacking reports of a "credibility gap" in the Administration, questioned the credibility of the press in reporting budgetary news-of which there has been precious little...
...currently director of the George C. Marshall Research Center, a private foundation at Lexington, Va., housing Marshall papers and memorabilia. Pogue can be relied upon to commit no injustice to the general. He can also be relied upon to use no fresh trope when the combat-tested cliché is available. But the book is read able for those who like the record plainly laid...