Word: copybook
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...Camus himself phrased it: "One cannot be free at the expense of others." To extract from such sick, vast-scaled cruelty and violence such mere copybook wisdom seems at the same time elaborate and insufficient. In any case, what turns Caligula into a pathologically fascinating figure keeps him from being in any fundamental sense an interesting one. In much the same way, Caligula has its brilliant bursts of theater, its explosive moments of action, its lightning flashes of revelation, but no sustained drama and almost no inner development...
...Prince, particularly in his leaps in the Act III Black Swan variations; Georgi Soloviev as an acrobatic Jester (a happy Russian addition to the ballet). Occasionally ragged the first evening, the Bolshoi's Swan Lake was danced with fine precision at the second performance. The repetitive, copybook attitudes of the ballet corps occasionally clotted the action and wearied the eye. But for the most part, the old war horse of the classic ballet came alive with a freshness it rarely achieves. A big part of the reason: the Russians approach the old fairy tale with simple, direct, unsophisticated conviction...
...since record 1955. What gives automen heart is the low level of consumer debt and the prospect of a big increase next year. One of the axioms of the new economics-and the exact opposite of the copybook maxims-is that rising consumer debt is a sign of prosperity, expanding in times of optimism, contracting in times of doubt. With recession in 1958, consumers paid off $1 billion in auto debts, the highest repayment since World War II. Now, with recovery, they should be in the mood to borrow for cars again. While predictions...
...Shoes), was a youthful art student in Paris, but this hardly qualifies him to write about the titan of the century. The morning meditations and night thoughts attributed to Picasso (called Julio Navarro in the book) are the cliches of art; his views on life and love are similarly copybook. And the speeches put in Picasso's mouth ("Balbac, I've got it! A whole new approach to painting!") often make him sound like a U.S. adman in the throes of a new toothpaste campaign...
...Stevenson home on Washington Street in Bloomington, Ill. Adlai absorbed the family sense of duty, his mother's intense intellectual curiosity. She read him the classics (Dickens, Scott), pumped him with such copybook admonitions as "Observe, persist, learn." "Keep pacid and cheerful, knowing all things come to those who love the Lord and do His works." After prep school (Choate) came Princeton. To the list of heroes that included Lincoln. Great-grandfather Fell and Grandfather Stevenson Adlai added a new one: Princetonian Woodrow Wilson, whom he had met in 1912. Of all the figures in the Democratic pantheon, Idealist...